(Confederate Adjutant General button)	The Civil War Relicman,  Harry Ridgeway
	Winchester, Virginia USA (changed hands 70 times in the Civil War!)
	I am a collector buying and selling authentic Civil War Relics
	This page updated   December 24, 2006

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Fakes, reproductions, replicas, Confederate plates 148 to 151
"CS" oval, stamped Breckinridge

Original was crudely stamped on heavy sheet, is not lead filled.  Scraps of cut brass were used for hooks.  Letters have a distinct boxey look.

P1407 CS oval buckle "Breckinridge" style


Editor note:  Plate was listed on my webpage for a brief period, then recalled and sent back to its source.  The seller originally got this piece off of ebay.  The buckle appears to have been stamped without a counter die and is thus indistinct.  Solder marks were placed on the back to deceive.  My opinion is that this is repro, I returned it to my source and did not sell it.

F1267  Oval CS buckle

Plate measures 54mm X 84mm  approximately, it is impossible to get meaningful measurements of hand cut oval buckles.

Editor note:  This buckle was submitted to me for evaluation.  The owner was highly suspicious he had gotten duped, and I am sorry to say his instincts are correct.  This has been aged with a sulfur compound, I think, somebody probably did poke a real bayonet through it, but that is as close as this piece of junk is going to get to anything authentic.  I think this was meant to be a copy of the Breckinridge, but the stamping is so weak it could be almost anything, except it is not anything that is real.

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