About thirty or so years ago Dixie Gun Works, a major BP supplier of all sorts of related things, offered what was said to be a replica of a belt buckle found at a site near Mobile where the 21st Alabama Regiment had been during the Civil War. The maker was said to have been a reenactor who found an original and then made a mold and was offering reproductions. I bought one.
Recently, I found a facebook page dedicated to the "Campaign of Mobile" during the Civil War. Several of the participants were popular history writers, state employed park officials, etc. I posted about the buckle I found and wondered if anyone had a reason to believe it was genuine. Well... nothing much other than such were among the several designs made during the war. One "authority" said some like it was a reproduction of one model cast in Georgia. Nobody seemed to know what kind of uniform belt buckles the regiment had actually.
However, today a guy posted that a relative dug one up last year in his back yard located in a relatively new subdivision within a few miles of the conflict sites of Spanish Fort and Blakely. Blakeley is the modern spelling. I'll attach the photo of the one I have as a reproduction and the one the man posted on the site. The genuine image first. My reproduction second.
There were other Confederate Regiments around of course , but at least it's maybe a possibility that Dixie was telling the truth to some extent.
Civil War Belt Buckle
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Civil War Belt Buckle
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Re: Civil War Belt Buckle
I neglected to post this link I posted to the facebook string. Seems one like that original buckle was sold by someone who deals in such things....in good condition ...for over $4000.
Scroll down about three quarters of the page linked. Notice the book image in black and white. One found in, or maybe produced, Monroe County Alabama. That's only about a hundred miles away from Mobile an the battles at Spanish Fort and Blakeley.
https://www.journeysendantiques.com/cop ... MjaylC0vGo
Scroll down about three quarters of the page linked. Notice the book image in black and white. One found in, or maybe produced, Monroe County Alabama. That's only about a hundred miles away from Mobile an the battles at Spanish Fort and Blakeley.
https://www.journeysendantiques.com/cop ... MjaylC0vGo