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  1. #1
    ca
    Jan 2011
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    Post your favorite button.

    Here is one of my 1850s period 63Rd button. The site that this came off had many neat finds. I think the location was an early tavern site, it was near the river, I think there must have been a crossing at this place. Brian C.
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  2. #2
    Charter Member
    us
    Jan 2011
    Huntingdon County Pa.
    Whites Spectrum XLT
    347
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    Honorable Mentions (1)

    Re: Post your favorite button.

    Quote Originally Posted by Brian C.
    Here is one of my 1850s period 63Rd button. The site that this came off had many neat finds. I think the location was an early tavern site, it was near the river, I think there must have been a crossing at this place. Brian C.
    This is not as pretty as some of the military buttons I have but this one is my favorite. Baldwin was a clothier in Huntingdon, Pa. It is the only one I have ever seen.
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  3. #3
    Charter Member
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    Richard Byrd Ray

    Feb 2011
    East Texas
    Many brands, Magnetometer, GPR, Side Scan, etc.
    150
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    Re: Post your favorite button.

    Button unknown, I'm not a button man
    Richard Ray
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  4. #4
    ca
    Jan 2011
    555
    3 times

    Re: Post your favorite button.

    Quote Originally Posted by Richard Ray
    Button unknown, I'm not a button man
    Richard Ray
    Interesting buttons for sure. I have been looking for a button book on British buttons 1812- 1850, no one has shown me one yet. We find many different buttons in Canada. Brian C.

  5. #5
    us
    Feb 2005
    Amber Waves of Grain!
    White's MXT Pro, White's XLT, Tesoro Tejon
    414
    All Types Of Treasure Hunting

    Re: Post your favorite button.

    Here's my favorite. It's a KMI Cadet button made between 1852 and 1877.
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    If you search long enough, you will find what you are looking for.

  6. #6

    Mar 2008
    salisbury, md
    Fisher ID edge
    714

    Re: Post your favorite button.

    1766 William Pitt no stamp act button, my favorite and best so far. And congrats to all for there nice buttons above.
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  7. #7

    Sep 2007
    Dirtyville
    Explorer
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    Re: Post your favorite button.



    It will have to be two because it's a tie.
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  8. #8
    Charter Member
    us
    Apr 2007
    Alabama
    Whites DFX/5900Di Pro
    79

    Re: Post your favorite button.

    My Map of Alabama button.
    No shank and it is dented where the patina is.
    Back Mark is: Scoville MFG.CO. Waterbury
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  9. #9
    ca
    Jan 2011
    555
    3 times

    Re: Post your favorite button.

    Quote Originally Posted by Brian C.
    Quote Originally Posted by Richard Ray
    Button unknown, I'm not a button man
    Richard Ray
    Interesting buttons for sure. I have been looking for a button book on British buttons 1812- 1850, no one has shown me one yet. We find many different buttons in Canada. Brian C.
    I was looking in the tice book, there are some buttons with M on them, your button could be a Maryland school button,1855-1860, just guessing. Brian C.

  10. #10
    de
    Feb 2009
    down in the ground
    XP-Gmaxx II
    274

    Re: Post your favorite button.

    Enamel folklore button,20 mm diameter,c.1860/70

    one of my favorites
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  11. #11
    us
    Apr 2009
    Taylor, MI.
    omega 8000, ace 250
    32
    All Types Of Treasure Hunting

    Re: Post your favorite button.

    up in my part of Michigan we don't get to find to many military buttons like the people down south, but i was very happy when i saw this one come out of the ground
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  12. #12
    us
    Seeker Of Lost And Purposely Discarded Antiquities

    Jul 2008
    Revere, Massachusetts (5 Miles North of Boston)
    White's Eagle Spectrum/White's Eagle II
    695

    Re: Post your favorite button.

    Here's my prized button find...a Civil War Massachusetts Volunteer Militia button, found on April 28, 1985, in a local school playground that was being bulldozed. The dozer had taken off several inches, and the button was another 4 inches down!

    Larry G.
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    A "Hunted-Out" Area Is A Place Others Have Given Up On"

  13. #13
    Charter Member
    us
    Dec 2010
    Rhode Island
    T2 SPECIAL EDITION
    1,603
    History Hunter

    Re: Post your favorite button.

    This i found in 2010.
    Its a rare Kentish Artillery button..
    My best so far...
    Nice buttons guys.




    Blaze...
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    Metal detecting,once you get hooked to this lifestyle,that lure of treasure......Its an adrenaline rush just talking about it..

  14. #14
    us
    Relics from a bygone era.....

    Jun 2009
    Nautilus
    219

    Re: Post your favorite button.

    IRISH VOLUNTEERS OF CHARLESTON.....I found the first one ever. It was not known to exist until my example surfaced.

    My button is pictured in Albert's button book, and Tice's button book.

    Only about five known.

    REB
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    "Broken to pieces, and cast away, never more to be recollected, and formed into a Quart mug" Benjamin Franklin

  15. #15

    Sep 2007
    Dirtyville
    Explorer
    11,411
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    Re: Post your favorite button.

    Quote Originally Posted by 55th Massachusetts
    IRISH VOLUNTEERS OF CHARLESTON.....I found the first one ever. It was not known to exist until my example surfaced.

    My button is pictured in Albert's button book, and Tice's button book.

    Only about five known.

    REB

    I almost asked you about that last night! I had never seen such a button and guessed it was a good one... but it's not... it's an incredible one!
    AMERICAN DIGGERS ON SPIKE: THE TRASH WE WOULD LIKE TO DISCRIMINATE OUT!

 

 

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