24 Civil War Buttons

[steelheadwill]

Greetings all,
Great weather lately here in New Hampshire
As you may know, I always keep my eyes open for out of place rock formations
on the flats of the tidal rivers.
In the past, some of these I've searched have been ballast piles from abandoned ships.
Had my eyes on this one for a while,
but put off searching it.
I got a good deep signal, dug a copper bracelet, a rescan of the hole indicated more targets, as I went deeper I encountered dense blue clay mixed with straw.
And buttons.
Eventually I moved stones and excavated a hole 4' X 2' and about 36" deep.
I made the large excavation after finding several buttons to avoid any damage to the remaining ones, understand that this was blind digging in a pit of muddy water.
End result was 19 'New Hampshire Volunteer Militia' buttons, (Tice NH 200A3)
and 1 General Service high convex, resembles Tice GS 226, is missing its back.
My first 'Muffin'
All but 2 of the NH buttons have intact shanks, and I see no reason why the rest won't clean up as well as these, I picked a random button to start.
5 hours of aluminum jelly and toothpicks yield 2 clean buttons.
Thanks to Buckleboy for resto advise
I believe there are more items at this site, tides limit search time.
I will update this post with new finds, and more cleaned examples.
I'm including a NH Militia Officer photo.
Thanks for looking, and Great Digs to You all.

 

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[Hill Billy]

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Congrats Herbie on making the banner.
Obviously I was wrong.

 

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[KyDigger68]

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Sweet! hard work pays off!!

 

[DMN]

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Excuse the ignorance of this question but is the button brass with gilding? Looks like there is only brass on the buttons from the cleaned pics. Just asking for future reference. And thanks again for showing the find off. Can't say I've seen too many dug buttons in a group like this that didn't come off a string.

 

[texan connection]

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WOW! a relic dredge is what you need for that site.

 

[hammered]

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Well done on a very deserved banner , I don't know how I missed this , but I'm glad I caught it this time round .


hammered

 

[crazyjarhead]

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A big, well deserved find, Herbie. Your persistance paid off in a big way

 

[Breezie]

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OMGoodness what a FANTASTIC find! Congrats on the well deserved BANNER! Breezie

 

[Gary Drayton]

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Congratulations on some really nice buttons.

 

[VOL1266-X]

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Congrats on making BANNER Herbie. That's a find that is very rare today. I found where a Union Soldier either lost or ditched his jacket. The Eagle buttons were barely under the ground but they were in bad shape and rotten. Your finds were in amazing shape and you did an excellent job of cleaning. HH, Quindy.

 

[Woodland Detectors]

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Congratulations on the Banner Herbie. Now I can't wait to read the story in the Magazines

 

[Wayupnorth66]

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wow...looks like you found the whole jacket...lol

 

[BuckleBoy]

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There has to be a full set of buttons there. The uniform would've held them all in one place together until it got covered by river silt. Keep at it. These are a beautiful set of finds.


Best Wishes,


Buckles

 

[Silver Searcher]

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Sorry for the late reply to this great find and post

I can see a lot more finds coming from this spot, it will just take a little...can't wait

Congrats on making the BANNER well deserved

SS

 

[KyFreeBird]

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Great find !!!!!!! WOW, those cleaned up nicely !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

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Congrats on making BANNER Herbie! ​

I knew this find would make it up top!

Dave

 

[darkwing_66]

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very nice congrats

 

[jrsherman]

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Herbie, congratulations on one of the most awesome relic banner finds this year! Given its location and condition, the restoration and recovery process you performed are second to none! I'd like to thank you for the amazing work you've done for the relic hunting community!

J.R. Sherman

 

[relichunters]

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It's possible that all of those are from one solider, he could have died right there and the coat has materialized and only buttons remain.

 

[steelheadwill]

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Excuse the ignorance of this question but is the button brass with gilding? Looks like there is only brass on the buttons from the cleaned pics. Just asking for future reference. And thanks again for showing the find off. Can't say I've seen too many dug buttons in a group like this that didn't come off a string.

Just got home from a 6 hour dig to see my buttons up top
Wouldn't be there without all my Diggin' Pals help !
Would like to say Thank You to everyone again, I am at my 1 year MD'ing anniversary
And this banner is a very timely present
BTW, I heard a very familiar sound from the Etrac today,
I really knew it was going to be another from the tone,
Yes, another one recovered
This ones crust flaked right off without any resistance.
An even two dozen sounds better than 23.
Great Digs To All
DMN, yes all gilt perished from salt exposure, these are the best buttons you'll get on the flats, and I didn't see any string
Gold coins hold up better

 

[Indiana Digger]

That's just...16 different kinds of WOW!

Congrats!


HH,


~Indiana Digger~