Todays find, It a nice one C>S>A> plate!

I found this today , in a old lot in Quincy Illinois. csa plate, and a one in a life time find for me. Thank for looking, and good luck on your next hunt!


thanks for looking i found this csa plate on the south side of quincy il. it was about 5 inches in the ground i got a reading of a dollar and 50 cents and it was really strong so i decided to dig it i got down to it i thought it was just a nother peace of metal but wasn't i was really saprized to, i found it with my dfx i went there twice today the second time i got lucky.. there use to be really old houses there.

awsoome!!!!!!!!!!!! Great plate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Upadate: congrats on the banner!!

Great find,  & in Illinois to boot !!

Wow Buddy, GREAT plate, congratulations! And never say "ONCE" in a lifetime, there's more out there! LOL, but I know what ya mean!  

nice find. congrats to you!

AWESOME. Tex

  3 great confederate plates posted in 3 days!       Quite a day you had! 

SWEET That rocks!!!!!!!

WOW!! The sooner you brush the dirt off of this one and repost the pic.... The sooner you'll see that one on the BANNER!!!!

Congrats on an awesome puppy paw buckle 

  3 great confederate plates posted in 3 days!       Quite a day you had! 
                                                                                                                                  yea I'm hoping i get a banner for this rare find!!

A little more of a story to go with that Stellar find and I'll vote BANNER on it.  The plate has EVERYTHING going for it--including the presence of all the hooks.  The face of it looks a little odd, so I'll have to do some looking into that.  It isn't the thin, Tennessee style plate--but might be the Atlanta style one...  But it looks genuine to me as of now.

GREAT find! 


Now get that story written so this can go up top!   

After doing some checking, I believe this is the Atlanta Arsenal style cast rectangular C.S.A. 

That's quite a FINE $2500.00 find.   


Cheers,



Buck

Congrats on a great plate find.

That is one sweet looking find!

Awesome. I live in Tennessee and I have yet to find a CS plate. And this one was found in Illinois. I wonder if it was a war souvenir that some one lost. Great find. Banner for sure.

Absolutely great find.  I vote for banner.
Dman

I also vote Banner for this Fantastic Find!!! Congratulations

One time a good friend of mine and I were hunting a soon to be new school site.  They were
tearing down many old houses.  My buddy was hunting a hill of dirt when he got this signal.  He pulls out what he thought was a Budwiser Beer Buckle.  I looked at it and told him it looked like
a Civil War buckle.  Sure enough it was a Officers Sword Belt plate in very good condition.  By the way, we were hunting in the Great State of OHIO!! 

You just never know what you will find.

Again, Congratulations
HH, Ringfinder

Awesome find Congratulations 
TTH

AWESOME scored for one for us Illinois boys if u ask me!!!!!!!!!  i was happy with my I and R buttons, but i better step up now and find one of them plates too    congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!     MR TUFF

          Super Find!!! I bet that was a pleasant surprise when you saw that baby in the hole. Congrats and HH.

Congratulations on a great plate, maybe a war souvenier that some Yankee brought home.

That is ONE FINNNNNNNNNNE Plate!!!!     That Plate is one of the BEST preserved CSA Plates that I've seen in a LONG TIME!!!!!  I cannot believe that you dug it all the way up in Illinois.  There is NO DOUBT that is the REAL DEAL.  Everything is right about it; the hooks, the style, the wearing.  Could not ask for a a better find.  That is MY dream find there.  Congrats buddy, enjoy it, many of us Southern Boys don't have one of those so you better enjoy it being from the North!  Banner find ALL THE WAY!!!  I'm glad that you posted photos of it with the dirt clumped up on it.  It lets everyone know that you really DID dig it!    

P.S.  Yes Buck, you're right about this being an Atlanta style...They made them in Atlanta and in my Hometown just an hour and 20 minutes South of Atlanta in Columbus.  You'll see "Columbus Depot" mentioned alot when talking about different shell jackets, plates, ammunition, etc because it was one of the biggest textile and goods producers in the entire Confederacy.
      

After doing some checking, I believe this is the Atlanta Arsenal style cast rectangular C.S.A. 

That's quite a FINE $2500.00 find.   


Cheers,



Buck

How should he finish cleaning it up? What a find!

Awesome Plate!!

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Beautiful CSA plate !!!!!!!!!!   BANNER ALL THE WAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!    Every Southerners Dream Find !!!!!

Just a thought, I believe there was a Confederate prison camp in Illinios.   Could it have been near your location?? 

AWESOME find for sure, lots of good finds to be made on the river town trails along the Mississippi river. Congrats and should make banner!!!
The prison mentioned was on the Rock Island Arsenal,Rock Island Illinois there is a Confederate cemetary there also.There may have been another but I don not believe any South of this one on the Western side of the state.
NICE PLATE congrats man. Hardrock

Thats what dreams are made of!!!!

After doing some checking, I believe this is the Atlanta Arsenal style cast rectangular C.S.A. 

That's quite a FINE $2500.00 find.   


Cheers,



Buck

How should he finish cleaning it up? What a find!

In my opinion, the cleaning job is finished.  Leave the concretion on the face of the plate alone or have it professionally removed.  That's to nice of a buckle to dick around with any sort of harsh cleaning method.  Even if the concretion were removed--say, with a wooden toothpick--there might be an odd orange, or brass colored lack of patina underneath.  So it might be a lose/lose situation, and the plate might have to go in to be touched up anyhow.  I would leave it as-is.  The patina is nicer than what one could hope for, it's not bent or plough-damaged, and all the hooks are there.   

Cheers,


Buckles

What a great recovery,this gives me hope. I live about an hour and a half south of Quincy in Illinois and have found several Civil war buttons,3 ring bullets,spencer casings and even a volunteer infintry badge but never anything confederate related. I pass by Quincy on the river about once a week.
 again congradulations on a remarkable find.

                                                            Rvrpilot

 Beautiful plate. Best I have seen and made not a 100 miles from me. If you feel it needs to come back home.....pm me  Nice !!!!!!
TnMtns

I could be wrong about this, but I think there was a prison camp at camp butler in springfield illinois which is about 90 to 100 miles east of quincy. I'm about 60 miles east of quincy and have found a couple civil war buttons but nothing as nice as this find. anyone in my area that would like to get together for a hunt is welcome to contact me.
roger@irtc.net   

thats why all us relic hunters go !!!hopefully to get a beaut like you did...congrats from n/z   

Well done on the BANNER Treasure find 

Des said it all - that's what it's all about
Mike 

Wow great plate. Looks great up on the banner. Congrats.

WOW, what a great looking plate!  That is an awsome find and in great condition also.   

These could be the sleepers in Illinois and Ohio. One of my ancestors was captured at the Battle of Nashville and taken POW to Camp Chase in Ohio. Maybe if you hunt the area between the railroad and the camp you may find some more great finds. The Confederates who were taken prisoner and taken up north may have lost a lot of items. These could be some good areas to research. Again great find.

Congrat's on the Banner plate well done.

WOW! Congratulations on a fantastic looking belt plate!  

Man that is a beautiful plate.  Congrats to you for saving that one. 

WOW! 

Congrats on the CSA Banner find !!!    Peace of Great Metal there dude     CMD

Awesome find!  And north of the MDL to boot.  Congrats!

Congrats on the CSA.  Super find anywhere but especially in Illinois.

Great looking banner find!

 

After doing some checking, I believe this is the Atlanta Arsenal style cast rectangular C.S.A. 

That's quite a FINE $2500.00 find.   


Cheers,



Buck

How should he finish cleaning it up? What a find!

In my opinion, the cleaning job is finished.  Leave the concretion on the face of the plate alone or have it professionally removed.  That's to nice of a buckle to dick around with any sort of harsh cleaning method.  Even if the concretion were removed--say, with a wooden toothpick--there might be an odd orange, or brass colored lack of patina underneath.  So it might be a lose/lose situation, and the plate might have to go in to be touched up anyhow.  I would leave it as-is.  The patina is nicer than what one could hope for, it's not bent or plough-damaged, and all the hooks are there.   

Cheers,


Buckles

Agreed!Unbeleivable Plate!!!

Congrats on your great CSA plate find and making the Banner !! 

TommNJ

After doing some checking, I believe this is the Atlanta Arsenal style cast rectangular C.S.A. 

That's quite a FINE $2500.00 find.   


Cheers,



Buck

How should he finish cleaning it up? What a find!

In my opinion, the cleaning job is finished.  Leave the concretion on the face of the plate alone or have it professionally removed.  That's to nice of a buckle to dick around with any sort of harsh cleaning method.  Even if the concretion were removed--say, with a wooden toothpick--there might be an odd orange, or brass colored lack of patina underneath.  So it might be a lose/lose situation, and the plate might have to go in to be touched up anyhow.  I would leave it as-is.  The patina is nicer than what one could hope for, it's not bent or plough-damaged, and all the hooks are there.   

Cheers,


Buckles

That is what I was thinking. It is a beaut as is.

Outstanding plate!! I'd say one of the best I've seen posted!!! Great recovery!!!

Banner all the way!
MB

Woo Hoo!  Good stuff down there! Congrats!

 You know I want to say bad thing's about you,but I can't.......Congrat's 

That is one good looking plate. You never know where they will turn up. I found mine in my driveway.

Happy Hunting
Wettpaint

Fantastic find, that plate looks GREAT!
 

That is one good looking plate. You never know where they will turn up. I found mine in my driveway.

Happy Hunting
Wettpaint

   driveway? 

I'm glad to see this find in the banner. It definitely deserves to be there. Leave it just like it is. That's the best dug CSA plate i've seen in years. Congrats on such a nice find.

Great find!  My Great Great Grandaddy spent almost 3 years at the Rock Island IL Prison as a POW.  He was in the 6th Fla Infantry and was bayonetted and captured near Chattanooga, TN during the battle of missionary ridge.  The story goes that after the war he rode trains but mostly walked back to his home in NW Florida. 

Again GREAT FIND!

Scout

Dang Yankees!

Great find, when the DFX reads $1 you just never know until you dig it. Aren't you glad you did!!  DFW

Congrats on an excellent find and saving a bit of history.   Too bad that plate can't talk.  Banner congrats too! 

HH

Great Banner find!
Newt

WooooooooHoooooooooooo; FANTASTIC find!  Congrats!    Breezie

WOW, WOW, WOW and it has all the hooks intact! Sweet! 
 Steve

That's a hell of a find. Congrats and HH

[Wow, imagine a Cub Scouts of America plate causing so much excitement! (Just kidding!)Congrats on an awesome CW relic! Hard to believe it showed up in Illinois!]

Wow, imagine a Cub Scouts of America plate causing so much excitement!   (Just kidding!)
Congrats on an awesome CW relic! Hard to believe it showed up in Illinois!











 The Lord Is My Shepherd!

Beautiful, Congradulations.

   Congrats on finding a great piece of history!   They hit hard , and you know when digging its gonna be good.....   

Fantastic 

congrats on an awesome find
and way to go on making the banner

great job especially with all the hooks on the back end. show us some pics when you get it cleaned up.

hh

Man, what a find, and you are right, a find of a lifetime, way to go,

One of my "Have to find someday "........... Wow !

Nice job Dean !!     

Keep @ it and HH !!    

.

  3 great confederate plates posted in 3 days!       Quite a day you had! 

who had 3 plates in 3 days? CSA plates?

WoW"  What a great find.

 really a sweet find man----congrats---I once found a 1830's era militia buckle but never a civil war plate--dang that's a good find----and folks say there's nowhere to hunt anymore---poot on that negativity!

 

Just as cool as the first time I read this post but what's the deal with all the old threads getting dug up lately ? Is it because it's too cold to get out and do any detecting ? When I click on TODAYS finds I don't expect to watch reruns...

Awesome find one of the most desired american history pieces right in your hand !! This year is starting to turn out good

Just as cool as the first time I read this post but what's the deal with all the old threads getting dug up lately ? Is it because it's too cold to get out and do any detecting ? When I click on TODAYS finds I don't expect to watch reruns...

Found August 25, 2010. Ahhhh, the good old days.   

OUTSTANDING find!!! Wish I would find one.

This is a wonderful find. Not only for its historic value but for is collectable value.

If you look closely you will see that this great find was made in August 2010. Just saying.

 

PS.. My congrats to you on a great find, last summer.