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Lot 2201
Two Union Cavalry Spurs Retaining Rowels
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Not a matched pair, each with a cast brass frame and iron rowel.

5-1/4 in. length

Recovered in Petersburg, Virginia area, late 1960s-early 1980s

The vast majority of dug Civil War spurs have lost their iron rowels to rust and ground action.

Original brass patinas; rust to iron, one still spins.