Antiques Roadshow

right in my third great-grandfather's civil war belt and the two pouches that were on it and who did he serve with he's third with the Pennsylvania regiment they armed a multi million man army with these so there's a lot of them around but on the back of this one we have his initials so we know it's his and that's a wonderful touch rather than just being an original belt buckle what do you know about these pouches I know that they go on the belt and that they do hold armaments I guess minie balls blasting caps and some tinder I think what's cool about these is that they held percussion caps which you had to have if you were gonna fire your guns wouldn't be a pistol a carbine or a musket and he served with the North out of Pennsylvania and that regiment the 206 Pennsylvania actually mustered in in Pittsburgh and if we open up this flap we've got the mark of Oliver and company in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania so it would have come straight from the factory when he had it and there's a few differences about these this one is made out of standard bridle leather and it has a little brass piece and the brass piece is called a finial and that's what the closure tab fits around to keep it closed did you ever notice that this one's made a little differently and that it's led now and it's also made of pig skin okay that's a couple of traits of it being a Confederate manufactured cat box so somewhere along the line he decided he was going to take him home a souvenir and he got one from the other side so we have the very well made one from Pittsburgh and the one that's made in the south the Confederate one okay because their family I'm sure they'd be processed but have you ever checked into a value never for collector value the belt without the name on it they usually sell in the three hundred dollar range because we have that name and association of your ancestor with it it'll double that it'll sell for about six hundred dollars as for the percussion-cap box the Union won a lot of them out there even with the name on it and it's probably worth somewhere in the hundred and fifty dollar okay the Confederate one is a lot rare and we do have the tab it's separated but you still have it it's amazing that that didn't get lost over the years one like this in this condition will sell for about a thousand dollars okay so it's worth more so it's worth more than the belt and the other cap box put together amazing okay great