3219A EXTREMELY RARE & FINE CONFEDERATE TEXAS BELT PLATE

Category Firearms & Military
Auction Currency USD
Start Price 4,000.00 USD
Estimated at 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD
EXCAVATED AT TUNNEL HILL, GA. 55.8mm x 83mm, die struck heavy gauge brass with large lined 5-pointed star Insignia. This very rare buckle is not pictured in earlier texts. Mullinax shows 3 almost identical variants in his definitive "CONFEDERATE BELT BUCKLES & PLATES", all excavated from Civil War sites with Texas troops. This buckle was dug April 2003 at Tunnel Hill GA and is featured in in North-South Trader’s Civil War Magazine, Vol. 30, No. 4, 2004. Excavated bar hook similar to what would attach buckle to belt accompanies. Mullinax ranks this buckle as a rarity "9", estimating survival between 6 and 15 survivors. UNATTACHED ACCESSORIES: Steve Mullinax Letter of Authenticity, copies of pertinent pages from Mullinax text, copy of page from North-South Trader's Civil War Magazine, Vol. 30, No. 4, 2004. CONDITION: PROVENANCE: Ed Holliday (1939-2019) estate collection. (02-22776/JS). NON-GUN. $8,000-12,000.