CUFFLINKS Thread! Best, Oldest, Most Unique, or just found!

[Iron Patch]

Post your... Complete cufflink or just a single side/ individual cufflink button.

1) Found with a Rev War Officer button, the cufflinks were no doubt his.

2) Solid silver, "B" represents the surname from the site. (Beers)

3) Tallyho - looking at this one again I'm pretty sure I can clean it better.

4) Sailing Ships

5) Very early hot air balloon.

6) For years I've wondered about these 3 glass ones with the back to back letter C. All were from different sites, both with French and British finds. Just a few weeks ago looking up a French coin I see that Besancon, France used the same exact mark as a mint mark on their coins so that might finally be my answer.

7) A soldier marked "British Volunteer."

8.) Ornate - Gold & silver plate.

 

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[mile-ender]

Might as well at mine to the lot
...and if anyone can educate me as to the age of some of these ( though I think most are early 20th or late 19th)

 

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[dirty_digger]

congrats

 

[Iron Patch]

A thought...


Watching the Antique Roadshow last night there was a couple of early paintings with the female subjects both wearing earrings. They were not Native, so I would assume earrings were a normal Colonial era item. Now here's the thing, in all the buttons, cufflinks, and all other trinkets I've dug I didn't recognize anything as an early earring. I wonder if we're finding them and assuming they are something else? Anyone have some Colonial earrings to show me that are either European or early American?

 

[BuckleBoy]

A thought...


Watching the Antique Roadshow last night there was a couple of early paintings with the female subjects both wearing earrings. They were not Native, so I would assume earrings were a normal Colonial era item. Now here's the thing, in all the buttons, cufflinks, and all other trinkets I've dug I didn't recognize anything as an early earring. I wonder if we're finding them and assuming they are something else? Anyone have some Colonial earrings to show me that are either European or early American?

Colonial Earring.

 

[Iron Patch]

A thought...


Watching the Antique Roadshow last night there was a couple of early paintings with the female subjects both wearing earrings. They were not Native, so I would assume earrings were a normal Colonial era item. Now here's the thing, in all the buttons, cufflinks, and all other trinkets I've dug I didn't recognize anything as an early earring. I wonder if we're finding them and assuming they are something else? Anyone have some Colonial earrings to show me that are either European or early American?

Colonial Earring.

I guess one would have had to have seen that 300 post thread to think that's funny.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Well...I could've posted a Colonial Lathing Hatchet...

 

[Breezie]

My fav cufflink has not been ID-ed yet; it is brass and some type of leather or skin. Breezie

 

[Mach1Pilot]

Here are my meager cufflink finds....but then again I'm a newbie at this hobby....

 

[CRUSADER]

Here are my meager cufflink finds....but then again I'm a newbie at this hobby....

Might be a newbie but it will be some years before you find a better Silver cufflink than that one! (you can mark my words & look back in 5 years time)

 

[BuckleBoy]

Here are my meager cufflink finds....but then again I'm a newbie at this hobby....

Mach 1,

Your first item appears to be a clothing clasp, if the back of it looks like these. It took us a while to figure out what they were, but the Whatzit was finally solved:

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,214528.0.html

Cheers,

Buckles

 

[Iron Patch]

Here are my meager cufflink finds....but then again I'm a newbie at this hobby....

Might be a newbie but it will be some years before you find a better Silver cufflink than that one! (you can mark my words & look back in 5 years time)

Yep, I've hunted a ton of sites over ten years that was the perfect era for early cufflinks and you can see how limited my finds are. I have found a few more, but nothing interesting.

 

[Mach1Pilot]

Here are my meager cufflink finds....but then again I'm a newbie at this hobby....

Mach 1,

Your first item appears to be a clothing clasp, if the back of it looks like these. It took us a while to figure out what they were, but the Whatzit was finally solved:

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,214528.0.html

Cheers,

Buckles

I think I need to clarify this a bit... the first two of my pictures are of the same item, just from the same angle.

Thanks for the ID suggestion, though Buckles.... you are usually dead on with your ID skills

 

[Mach1Pilot]

Here are my meager cufflink finds....but then again I'm a newbie at this hobby....

Might be a newbie but it will be some years before you find a better Silver cufflink than that one! (you can mark my words & look back in 5 years time)

As much as I'd like to think that I'll find a better one tomorrow, no doubt you are absolutely correct about that insight!

 

[Kyle PA]

Found by Colonial Copper Zeus on a site settled in 1773. We still don't know who the heck is on them.

 

[Iron Patch]

Found by Colonial Copper Zeus on a site settled in 1773. We still don't know who the heck is on them.

I'll always believe it's a variation of the Rodney links. The one top left even looks like it says "ROD"

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

I finally found one this past spring. I get the feeling that it is mid to late 19th century.

 

[CRUSADER]

Found by Colonial Copper Zeus on a site settled in 1773. We still don't know who the heck is on them.

I'll always believe it's a variation of the Rodney links. The one top left even looks like it says "ROD"

The right one is a definate likeness of Punch from 'punch & Judy'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_and_Judy

'Punch was extremely popular in Paris, and, by the end of the 18th century, he was also playing in Britain's American colonies, where even George Washington bought tickets for a show.'

 

[gwdigger]

This post made me want to go and see what i had. I think there are a few more but here is what I dug out quickly.

 

[gwdigger]

A few more pics...I like the queen annes and the pillar the best.

 

[Iron Patch]

Not surprised you have some great cufflinks considering your other finds posts. Man those just scream awesome Colonial sites!