Civil War Cavalry Spur found Friday

7Creeks

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• Feb 16, 2013

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Found this spur yesterday at a old home site out in the woods. Its a Model 1859 Union Spur, it is listed in Mr. Howard R. Crouch's book "Historic American Spurs" on page 34 listed as US 3. with the "about 10% of those Model 1859 spurs found will be of this variety, having a cast groove on the inner heel band. This was done to both strengthen and lighten the spur. This is the first spur I have found in 20 plus years of hunting and its a rare one fully intact. I'll take this over those Mercs dig any day.

 

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armydude

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• Feb 16, 2013

• #2

Ditto! Nice, really nice!

 

40acre1870

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• Feb 16, 2013

• #3

Wow... Holy Wow!

Great find. Would love to know the story behind it.

 

blev

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• Feb 16, 2013

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i'm green , such a awesome find. congrads and thanks for posting. HH blev

 

DixieRiverDiggr

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• Feb 16, 2013

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Congrats!!! EXCELLENT FIND WTG!!!



HH!

~ Red

 

Diggin Funatic

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• Feb 16, 2013

• #6

That is really cool! Congrats!

 

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• Feb 16, 2013

• #7

That is a fantastic find!!! Congrats!

 

Sonny b

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• Feb 16, 2013

• #8

Outstanding find. Nicely done.

 

joee5

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• Feb 16, 2013

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Thats one awesome find. Truly a treasure

 

CTCurt

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• Feb 16, 2013

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Great find, congrats.......Curt

 

sonnydigs

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• Feb 16, 2013

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That is very nice....
Congrats...
HH....
Sonny

 

Silver Hawk

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• Feb 16, 2013

• #12

Wickedly awesome find 7Creeks... congratulations! ...

Best Regards,
Silver Hawk

 

John in NC

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• Feb 17, 2013

• #13

Nice spur! It's on my list.

 

johnc46

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• Feb 17, 2013

• #14

Very nice historic find

 

Katiemay88

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• Feb 21, 2013

• #15

Fantastic find! Congrats!

 

matmit

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• Feb 22, 2013

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Wow

That is totally cool, nice save!

 

Lightningjack

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• Feb 22, 2013

• #17

Sweet find, Congrats...

 

Rattlehead

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• Feb 22, 2013

• #18

That's just awesome! Love the Civil War stuff!

 

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NHKeith

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• Feb 22, 2013

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WOW now thats totally AWESOME!!

 

pine3874

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• Feb 22, 2013

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I'll take this over those Mercs dig any day.[/QUOTE said:

I'll second that!! Great find.

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