T-NET MILITARY BUTTON SHOW

VERMONTPACKRAT

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Iron Patch said:
Thanks Guys and I wish that was the case but unfortunately it is not. That patricular button is only significant because of the context of the find. (with GW buttons) The site also says... "David F. Johnson and a Col. Campbell declared they were the first Continental Navy buttons found to date." But that is incorrect, these are British Royal Navy buttons. I still like it but no GW connection on mine, just an early Navy.

If you look at the hammer price listed (which I haven't for a while) I don't believe that button got much more than maybe $400. That right there tells the story because that's about the range of what my button would probably bring if non dug. Obviously the serious guys at auction had very little interest in it.

PS... Did you know at that sale it was coin collectors who smoked the button guys for the high bids and bought all the best stuff.

I am a looooooong time coin collector that since finding a few buttons of my own has become more and more interested in them.
Maybe we just like small round shiny objects :icon_scratch:

VPR
 

Iron Patch

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VERMONTPACKRAT said:
Iron Patch said:
Thanks Guys and I wish that was the case but unfortunately it is not. That patricular button is only significant because of the context of the find. (with GW buttons) The site also says... "David F. Johnson and a Col. Campbell declared they were the first Continental Navy buttons found to date." But that is incorrect, these are British Royal Navy buttons. I still like it but no GW connection on mine, just an early Navy.

If you look at the hammer price listed (which I haven't for a while) I don't believe that button got much more than maybe $400. That right there tells the story because that's about the range of what my button would probably bring if non dug. Obviously the serious guys at auction had very little interest in it.

PS... Did you know at that sale it was coin collectors who smoked the button guys for the high bids and bought all the best stuff.

I am a looooooong time coin collector that since finding a few buttons of my own has become more and more interested in them.
Maybe we just like small round shiny objects :icon_scratch:

VPR


When I started detecting it for just for coins, ones only 100 years old, all I thought that was possible. Not too long after getting going I found some good buttons and I'll admit at first the $$$ value is what made me like em, but now so many years later I like early military and coins the same. If I had to make a choice to only keep my relics or coins I would be very torn on what to do.
 

BuckleBoy

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Iron Patch said:
If I had to make a choice to only keep my relics or coins I would be very torn on what to do.

For me, relics win--hands down. They blow the $$$ value of the coins away. Coins are nice--but value-wise, it pays to know what relics you're digging. :wink:


Best Wishes,


Buck
 

rmptr

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Thanks to all for the great pics !

If I was digging targets like those I'd still be there!

Best
 

West Jersey Detecting

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Until I upgraded to the DFX last year the button I posted above was the only military button I had found. This year I have started finding them on a regular basis!
 

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DirtyMike

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Most of my buttons from my first year digging.
 

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Don in SJ

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Here are some of my military buttons found over the years.

1790s to early 1800's Unknown British button
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Unknown Naval button 1790s era
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Early 1800s British Naval button
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1840 era US Naval Button
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Rev War US Dragoon button
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Early US Navy button
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General Service US button
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Couple NJ buttons
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Unknown British Regiment button
EarlyUSNaval15mm.jpg

Only known USTE button ever found (circa 1820) - Alberts TE1
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Assortment of Tudor Roses
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War of 1812 button
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Don
 

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hogge

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Kinda hard following Don's post, but here they are..... 2 NYS Militia Buttons and a circa 1820 Artillery Button.
 

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birdman

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French buttons 1792-1813.
 

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indianagrown

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This is my first and only button. I am new to the game and to TNet. My friend was more excited than I was when I found it. I didn't really understand what I had at the time, but it seems that I got pretty lucky.
 

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vayank54

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Here's a few I've dug over the years, A rare MVC officer's button, a Georgia Military Institute staff cuff, less than a dozen or so known, a couple pics of SC's. and a group that came from a camp in Stafford VA, 3 eagle C's, Wisconsin. New Hampshire & New Yorks cuffs At the bottom is a gold locket with gold cloth inside dug in the same camp.
 

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SgtSki in MI

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I found these in August 2008 at Ft Custer, Michigan. The left is a US Army Cuff and the right is a WW2 Wehrmacht Officer's coat button. Ft Custer housed German POWs during WW2
 

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leddel

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boy there are some extremely nice buttons on this thread :headbang: :notworthy: :headbang:

heres a few of the better ones i have found
a New York militia button (1805-35)
a infantry cuff I button
two artillery buttons 1808 -1821
a artillery button 1811-1813
 

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Diggincoinz

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Look at all of those buttons! I just dug this one last week...
 

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Gonehunting

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just started finding buttons within the last month..These all came from southeastern oklahoma.
eagle d 1840s
great coat 1820 to 1839
US William Pinchon one year 1827
eagle a 1850's to ?
forage cap 1830's to 1840s
feel real silly posting these after all the others... :notworthy:
 

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West Jersey Detecting

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A few more from this year. We have been detecting a soy field that we feel may have been used as a CW camp.

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