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Spur Part

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VaBill

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My buddy and I hit a lagre farm today and I did ok. I 1862 IH, fired .58 roundball, fired Barthlow bullet, melted lead, and a spur piece. Well the spur is just the neck and I took if for being broke, but on further inspection its cast like that and on the end where I thought it was broke is a small nub of iron. So it seems like this style would have been screwed into the boot somehow. Anyone seen anything like it?
 
Bill, Howard R Crouch's "Historic American Spurs" lists a few that may fit the "bill". One example shows a small heel plate that screwed into the back of the boot's heel. Then the neck with the rowel would screw into this plate. A couple of other examples show heel bands, that fit around the heel as an ordinary spur would have. This band was permanently screwed into the heel. Then the neck and rowel piece would screw into the back of the heel band, completing the spur. Called a "Screw-out" neck spur. Crouch lists them within the Union spur section of this little book.

Good Find!

Kim
 
I dont have the crouch book but I think I found it anyway. If you look in the North South Trader Vol 31/ No 1 there is a write up on spurs. Well Im 98% sure mine is the one on page 61 in the bottom picture.
 
A number of spurs had screw on tangs and "rooster necks." Keep looking, maybe the rest is nearby. Good hunting, David@Dixie
 
Yea I didnt know they were so common till I read the article. The place had been hunted recently but Im planning on going back.
 
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