This beautiful 2 piece brass CS buckle is actually a reproduction of an original. A wax impression was made from an original, and this copy was cast from it. Really hard to tell from an original. Superb quality. But still a $30 fake, and not an $2500 original.
by Mark P with comments disabledHere is another example of what someone thought was a real Civil War Cannonball. It is actually a rock crusher ball. There are so many different sizes of these “rock crushers” balls, that it is hard to tell if it is a cannonball or not. Cannonballs have to be a certain diameter and weight, and perfectly round. Examine the picture closely, and you can see it is oblong and has flat spots on it. This could have easily been passed off to someone as a cannonball, if you didn’t know what to look for. Buyer beware. What he thought was a $100.00 cannonball, is actually a 3lb ball of scrap iron.
by Mark P with comments disabledBeginning collectors beware, what may appear to be a 12lb Civil War cannon ball, is just a old shot putt, or weight. This happens so much. Cannon Balls were never stamped like this. If you see something like this, it is a weight of some kind, not a cannon ball. It is only worth it’s weight in scrap steel. Save yourself from a costly mistake!
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