Those Dragoon buttons look early. Are they one piece buttons, and if so were they found in Texas or Oklahoma? A buddy of mine has dug hundreds of Dragoon buttons in Texas and Oklahoma, but only one was one piece.
Hi Steve, all my dragoon buttons are 2 piece. I think they are Horstman & sons but I don't remember for sure and I don't have them with me right now. All were found in Oklahoma.
Here are a few of mine..I was hunting a site in California and found a old camp site. I located 10 eagle D buttons in this spot including a pistol. Love these eagle d 's, as you ca see my profile has a few of the others I found.
This is my only Eagle button so far, I recovered it from a pond in a really small backwoods village, it originally had some cloth still attached and was pulled out of that nasty black mud found in the bottom of stagnant ponds. My Albert's button book states that it is an early federal militia button.
The New York Legion-First Vol.,led by Jonathan Stevenson,was sent to secure and settle Calif,by President Polk in 1847.Attached was also the First Artillery.They left a couple of there coveted buttons which I cherish!
Also are a few G.S.,and Infantries I have been fortunate to find as well
M.X.T , Tesoro Tejon 4"& 2.5" dredge with a little luck!!
I have been fortunate enough to have found a few, especially since for the military ones, I hunt nowhere near where any action took place.
Two of the buttons with Eagles on them are unique, being the only known examples of them, so they are my favorite button finds of all time.
United States Topographical Engineer button ca. 1820, Albert's TE-1 known as the USTE button
War of 1812 Union Greens button, Irish militia unit from Baltimore Md, which fought in the Battle of North Point saving Ft McHenry during the battle when the National Anthem was written.
Patriotic button, Alberts UU132A
1820 era button with a Naval Eagle backmark
Jacsonian Eagle button
Early US Naval button
Congressional Campaign button of 1834
War of 1812 era button
1840 era Naval button
Several Eagle backmarked buttons
I have other Eagle buttons, mostly from CW era and post CW, just no photographs available right now.
Don
"The mantra has always been don't clean a (copper) coin or it will lose value.
For undug coins this is true. For dug coins this is untrue.
The value will increase with judicious cleaning."