Any ideas??

[CWLeadManiac]

Found this for sale, ID'd as a possible Confederate breast plate. It's 2.25 inches across. Any ideas???

 

[UCVRelics]

It is NOT a CS breast plate. Looks like it maybe a bridle rosette

 

[CWLeadManiac]

It is NOT a CS breast plate. Looks like it maybe a bridle rosette

I was sort of thinking the same thing. I'll check for dimensions. A breast plate should be much larger than a rosette and would most likely have markings from the army it belonged to, correct?

 

[Cornpone and Molasses]

It is NOT a CS breast plate. Looks like it maybe a bridle rosette

This would be my guess too.

 

[captaindrew]

@UCVRelics is there even such a thing as a Confederate breast plate? Didn't think they ever made any other than some Southern state produced plates for pre/early war militia.

 

[UCVRelics]

@UCVRelics is there even such a thing as a Confederate breast plate? Didn't think they ever made any other than some Southern state produced plates for pre/early war militia.

There were NO CS breast plates just state issue. We need to know the size but I'm leaning rosette.

 

[CWLeadManiac]

There were NO CS breast plates just state issue. We need to know the size but I'm leaning rosette.

Seller says it's 2.25 inches across and agrees it may be a rosette

 

[Package4]

Seller says it's 2.25 inches across and agrees it may be a rosette

Is this from the Appomattox area?

 

[R. Porter]

There were NO CS breast plates just state issue. We need to know the size but I'm leaning rosette.

I've got a C.S.A. breast plate that I was going to post as a "what is it really?" but hadn't gotten around to it. I was thinking some sort of Hollywood prop or reenactor thing. It isn't a buckle because it has a pin back.

 

[CWLeadManiac]

Is this from the Appomattox area?

Seller says it was dug in Richmond in the area of a known CSA camp.

 

[UCVRelics]

Seller says it was dug in Richmond in the area of a known CSA camp.

Just because it was dun in an area of a known CSA camp does not make it CS. Just sayin. Plus you have to remember that most CS officers and all CS cav had to bring their own horses.

 

[CWLeadManiac]

Just because it was dun in an area of a known CSA camp does not make it CS. Just sayin. Plus you have to remember that most CS officers and all CS cav had to bring their own horses.

That's why I was buying the story. CS cavalry would have any one of a number of civilian acquired bridle rosettes. On a side note, the auction price has gone over what I'm willing to pay so some unwitting buyer will buy it, thinking it's a rare CS breast plate.

 

[Frederick14Va]

The features on the back tend to reflect the object is a Pendulum Bob weight from and old clock. The decorative front commonly stamped sheet brass, the lead back with the channel where the suspension/adjustment wire runs through it. Have tubs of these from working on old clocks.