I found this Cival war era officers E Plurbis Unum sword plate last month at a 1800's house.
Just goes to show no matter how many times a place has been detected they never get it all.
This buckle was three inches down right in the middle of a small grassy area twenty feet from the house all the rest of the land is surrounded by woods.
How could who knows how many detecrorist either miss it or didn't dig because it wasn't a coin?
Certainly many being open to the public and nothing else being found in the entire yard around the entire house except really crappy iron signals.
Anyway I would like to remove the green without removing any of the patina.
Is this possible and how can I keep the green from coming back.
Should I attempt cleaning or leave it just the way it is ?
Also if anyone has any knowledge about this buckle I would love to hear it.
A friend of mine has a friend that is big into Civil war relics and tried to match it to those in a book he has and said while it looks very similar to others it's not quite the same as any in his book. I only got this second hand so I don't know the particulars but I guess while there are several very similar they have slight differences in them. but I really don't know.
I posted duplicate photos in hopes one might be sharper than others . The IPad is not good for taking picture s for posting.