Tennessee residents must include 9.75% sales tax. Items can be shipped UPS or USPS Priority Mail. A minimum charge of $10.00 will be added to cover shipping. Please call between 9:30 AM and 5:00 PM Central Time. If payment is not received within 7 days the item will be placed back for sale. The item will be held for 7 days for the payment to arrive. After you place your order and receive confirmation from Shiloh Relics. We do out best to keep the web-site up-to-date but sometimes items sell out of the shop or at a show and aren't removed immediately. It is always best to call and reserve an item as most of them are unique. If we make a mistake we will make it right. Remember that the only true experts died 100 years ago. What a great Civil War Naval Item!Īll items are described to the best of our ability. He added the end and you can see that it was used after the repair. There is a splice where the sailor had to keep using the belt. The leather is the buff leather version and the leather is still nice and pliable. This is a nice little touch to an already great artifact. One thing that is so special about this one is that it has the original leather belt attached. The other side has a ribbed texture that was designed to pinch the belt against the edge of the buckle to keep it up. It has an iron piece of metal folded over the center bar that was riveted on one end to the belt itself. The buckle itself is a cast iron piece that was painted using black lacquer paint to keep them from rusting in the salt air. This is the belt buckle that was worn by the enlisted men of the United States Navy during the Civil War. It is the pattern that is listed as figure #1015 in the wonderful buckle book by O'Donnell & Campbell. This is a very tough to find belt and buckle.
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