Artifacts

[KianGaf]

https://www.gettysburgmuseumofhistory.com/product-category/gettysburg-artifacts-for-sale/

Is this company selling authentic artifacts ?

 

[UCVRelics]

This is just my opinion. authentic Gettysburg relics bring a premium price and anyone can take a sharpie and write what ever on them put them in a fancy display with a COA (which is worthless) and sell them to unsuspecting folks who don't know any better. A 3 ring bullet is worth around $3 put it all together and BAM $25. Some of the writing looks very new to me. I have my doubts. The best way to know if items are what they are is to dig them yourself as I do.

 

[Shermanwasaterrorist]

Just like putting "Confederate" in the description. I can't believe the CSA had any issues with having as much resources (bullets and spurs especially) as they did.

 

[Gandycreek]

I've heard it said that if all the relics with Gettysburg provenance were found there, they would have been 3 foot deep all over the Battlefield.
Buy the relic, not the story.

 

[KianGaf]

I'd be interested in a button or a minie ball if I could find an authentic one but I thought parts of trees was a bit suspect.

 

[Shermanwasaterrorist]

Just like putting "Confederate" in the description. I can't believe the CSA had any issues with having as much resources (bullets and spurs especially) as they did.

Maybe not too far off your OP subject, but an above post mentions "bullets in wood" relics. I've noticed in the last 2 years a ten fold if not hundred fold increase in bullets in wood on dozens of dealers sites online and shows. What gives? Mostly fakes as far as the time period? Fakers shooting period guns and ammo into modern trees? There's forests of bullets in woods out there for sale and for sure some are truly authentic, but it seems every tree during the War in the forests of Chickamauga were riddled.

 

[Shermanwasaterrorist]

I'd be interested in a button or a minie ball if I could find an authentic one but I thought parts of trees was a bit suspect.

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