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Buckle... What is it?
- Thread starter phintar
- Start date
yowow#1 said:
yowow, We don't have the same feelings which is nice because most of us deal with humans and such touchy feelings are too easily wounded by humans.
phintar, Welcome to findmall. You've found a really cool looking buckle, and rare too! Here is one found by another detectorist.....
http://whiteselectronics.com/component/story/title/1850s-belt-plate.html
I cannot find any specimens offered for sale, but since yours is not complete it will have lost a considerable amount of value. If your very interested in finding a value, you may have to find an auction house that deals with 19th century mining items. There is a market for items like this but being incomplete certainly affects the appeal. If I were you, I would try very hard to find the other half.
flinthunter
Well-known member
phintar said:
phintar, welcome to the forum. In my opinion there was nothing in your post to apologize about. Many of us here ask about value. Nice buckle. Wish I could help you with it but its something I know nothing about. Now go find the other half.
flinthunter
Well-known member
I found the same type and time period buckle on Ebay except that the Ebay buckle pictured a star on it. It was metal detector dug, had both pieces, and also had some damage. It sold for $153. I found it in the Ebay completed items section using the keywords miners buckle or you can use the item number 150963812892. Good luck finding the other half of yours.
wow! Thank you all for your support and information on this buckle... I looked up that ebay link and ended up running into this link http://www.ebay.com/itm/California-Gold-Rush-pre-Civil-War-cast-miners-tongue-for-belt-plate-rare-/170777628998?nma=true&si=GQWckjEVJwlDsfpSDQE2qfRegyc%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 or this item number 170777628998. In the pictures he has a picture of the buckle in a magazine and it says towards the bottom that only 10 are known! Did I get lucky with this or what? Its my first real find and I am super excited! I will be going out today to try and find the sencond half!!!!!!
There are eleven known to exist now.....GL finding the other half! Its always fun having a goal when your hunting a given area. Knowing the other half must have fallen near by should give you plenty of motivation to keep swinging that coil! I wish I found a spot that gave up goodies like that. 