Georgia Frame Buckle Excavated

[relichound]

This came from a large May 9, 2008 auction at an auction house in
the Gettysburg area. I was there, and I saw Civil War dealers there, some
of whom had come hundreds of miles to come to this auction. There
were items, like this one, from the famous Larry Eckert collection.
"Confederate Frame Buckle, Redding Farm, Behind Confederate Line."

 

[UCVRelics]

Nice one. Could you post a photo of the other side as there were several versions of this buckle.

 

[lelliott19]

Wow @relichound that's awesome! Do you know where that Redding Farm was? Since it says "behind Confederate line" Im assuming it was not found at the modern day David Redding Farm, north of town-- where the reenactment was held? Maybe the Clement Redding farm? between Willoughby Run and Marsh Creek? If that's it, I'm just wondering what brigade had their hospital there? @Tom Elmore do you know?

Source: NPS. Cultural Landscape Report for Eisenhower National Historic Site. Vol 1. Link

 

[relichound]

Nice one. Could you post a photo of the other side as there were several versions of this buckle.

Here is scan of other side of Georgia Frame Buckle.

 

[relichound]

OK, scan did not seem to work. Let's try it again here. For ucvrelics.

Wow @relichound that's awesome! Do you know where that Redding Farm was? Since it says "behind Confederate line" Im assuming it was not found at the modern day David Redding Farm, north of town-- where the reenactment was held? Maybe the Clement Redding farm? between Willoughby Run and Marsh Creek? If that's it, I'm just wondering what brigade had their hospital there? @Tom Elmore do you know?
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Source: NPS. Cultural Landscape Report for Eisenhower National Historic Site. Vol 1. Link

 

[relichound]

lelliott19,
Years ago I looked at the "Official Records Atlas" and found on one Gettysburg map a Redding property behind the
CS right flank. Probably the Clement Redding property. ?

 

[JOHN42768]

Very nice

 

[relichound]

Oh, I do regret never finding with my detector a Confederate plate, of any type. The best one I ever found was one at an on-site house auction around 1990 something. In a box of old pen knives with the better things in a side yard was a C-box plate, but this one did not have "US" on it. It was the Georgia state seal plate. No hooks on the back, but in otherwise complete condition and it looked like it had not long come out of the ground. I could tell that they had no idea just what it was or what it was worth, and I was right. It went for $55, and for a couple years I displayed it at Civil War shows in Virginia. The house this came from was located right behind an old white tall
church in a Maryland town. That church was used as a hospital for wounded soldiers from the 1862 battle of Antietam. I was told that
they disposed of trash from that hospital by throwing it behind the church! A relative of the owner told me she thought it had been
found in the vegetable garden of that house lot. Maybe so. I sold this eventually to a dealer at a show for some real money.
I have found a couple Union C-box plates in Virginia, and a couple Eagle Breast Plates. Those were real fun to find!