Sword Plate

[grizzlymint]

My first sword plate.

 

[DJB_78_0844]

That's a beauty!!

 

[greaser]

Very nice congrats.

 

[Overvoltage]

WOW we WOW WOW That is SWEEEET! Awsome find, congrats.

 

[mudpuppy]

Whaaaa? Backstory of this amazing find please!
Mud

 

[Goldstrike]

That is a very nice piece! Yes, a backstory is really needed to put some meat on the bone!

 

[togg77]

Veeeeeeery nice.

 

[jim tn]

Outstanding find and a real beaut. HH jim tn

 

[chuckciao]

Great find! I hope you will share your backstory history with us!

 

[grizzlymint]

I'll do my best. This sword plate came out of a old house site a couple hundred yards away from a confederate camp. The old house burned so the place is hard to hunt with all the old nails and iron. Needless to say," I was excited to have the honor of recovering this plate."

 

[chuckciao]

Thanks and best of luck in researching your spectacular find!

 

[grizzlymint]

Thanks guys

 

[chuckciao]

Grizzlymint,
Just as a suggestion, you might want to post it on Findsmall's Civil War Forum. Someone there might be able to give you some ideas about it.
Best of Luck
Chuck

 

[grizzlymint]

Chuck,

I will. It's a 1851 sword plate missing the applied silver wreath. Best regards.

 

[bootyhoundpa]

Very nice indeed...congrats...

 

[chuckciao]

So, it's pre Civil War. Amazing. Probably from Mexican War. Not sure what detector you are using but, Minelab, for example, publishes photos and stories about spectacular finds and in my opinion, yours is truly spectacular!
Congrats again for an amazing find!
Regards
Chuck

 

[grizzlymint]

From all the research that I've done. This particular buckle was used during the civil war. Only if this plate could tell it"s story. I found this plate with a White's 6000 pro xl. Today I took my kids Teknetics Eurotek Pro with a N.E.L sharpshooter coil. Found a few things. Nothing really interesting. Whenever the weather cooperates I'm going to use a Fisher f-75 dst with the 5" coil on the site.