Dixie RelicsDixie RelicsYOU WILL RECEIVE A GROUP OF FIVE OF THESE ORIGINAL SPRING STEEL BELT CLIPS . THE BELT CLIP PATENT WAS VERY UNIQUE AS IT CLIPPED TO AN EXISTING BELT AND YOU COULD CONCEAL CARRY. IT WAS PATENTED IN 1865 AT THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR. SOME BELIEVE THESE WERE USED LATE THRU THE US INDIAN WAR. PICTURED IS THE ORIGINAL CRATE AND AN ORIGINAL HOFFMAN HOLSTER FOR A POCKET REVOLVER NOT INCLUDED. HE WAS A LOCAL GUNSMITH THRU THE CIVIL WAR FAMILY OWNED AND CLOSED IN THE 1930s IN VICKSBURG MS. HE PATENT THIS CLIP IN 1865. THIS IS ONE OF OUR BIGGEST DISCOVERIES FOUND AT THE VICKSBURG MISSISSIPPI CIVIL WAR SHOW. A CRATE OF ORIGINAL PATENT 1865 BY CONFEDERATE GUNSMITH LOUIS HOFFMAN. THEY ARE MADE OF SPRING AND MAKER MARKED VICKSBURG MS. THIS ORIGINAL CACHE CRATE PICTURED WAS PULLED OUT OF LOUIS HOFFMAN'S SHOP MANY YEARS AGO AS IT WAS IN ITS BASEMENT BEFORE IT WAS TORN DOWN.