I found this today and am really happy, but I really don't know what I have... I found a site that has a picture of the same buckle, but it doesn't give a price on it or anything ( http://www.relicman.com/fakes/zfakeFed338California2part.htm ) plus this is just a replica of it... I cant seem to find one on EBay or anywhere else for that matter... Anyone know anything about this buckle? I am missing the other piece to the 2 piece set, but it looks to be in pretty good shape for its age.
Find's Treasure Forums
Welcome to Find's Treasure Forums, Guests!
You are viewing this forums as a guest which limits you to read only status.
Only registered members may post stories, questions, classifieds, reply to other posts, contact other members using built in messaging and use many other features found on these forums.
Why not register and join us today? It's free! (We don't share your email addresses with anyone.) We keep email addresses of our users to protect them and others from bad people posting things they shouldn't.
Click here to register!
Need Support Help?
Cannot log in?, click here to have new password emailed to you
Changed email? Forgot to update your account with new email address? Need assistance with something else?, click here to go to Find's Support Form and fill out the form.
California Gold Miners 2 piece belt buckle
- Thread starter phintar
- Start date
try not to be too concerned with the $$.. You have a wonderful relic of the mid 1800's. Try researching the area you located it a bit. If you are near a mining community try to locate some pictures of the mining crew. I am not much help in giving you an idea of what its worth but its a damn nice find! Some gold miners of that time period were known to have belt buckles with nuggets set in them 
Keep swinging and posting pictures of your finds!
Neil
Keep swinging and posting pictures of your finds! Neil
MNCoinhunter
Active member
Nice !! 
Im new to the hobby and this forum and discovered that asking how much things are worth is the wrong question, when I got an ear full from some other posts I made... That being said, I appologize about that... I will look up the pictures and see if I can find anyone wearing this buckle, but I found a picture of a magazine with this buckle in it! It said that there are only 10 known to have been found! This is my first REAL find, and I am super excited about it... Thank you for any help
C E Stricklin
New member
These were two part (tongue & wreath) buckles, what you found is the tongue part. You need to go back where you found it, grid it off and search slowly and see if you can find the wreath part. Even in dug condition, if it were complete, a collector would pay a good amount of money for it due to it's rarity.
mlamp20412
New member
Sounds pretty rare based on these postings:
http://www.westernbitters.com/2010/04/real-holy-grail.html
http://whiteselectronics.com/component/story/title/1850s-belt-plate.html
Nice find!
http://www.westernbitters.com/2010/04/real-holy-grail.html
http://whiteselectronics.com/component/story/title/1850s-belt-plate.html
Nice find!
DaytonaGold
Member
Damn, that is sweet...GO BACK AND FIND THAT OTHER PIECE !!!
broadestpower
New member
Maybe this clean buckle gives you an idea of what the buckle looks like restored.
Great find, you have to try and find the other half! Congratulations!
Great find, you have to try and find the other half! Congratulations!