1820s NAVY BUTTON- Cane Field Bandits~

[shanegalang]

95° heat, 100 % humidity, a new permission to hunt another field. Buckleboy and I took advantage of it and spent the better part of the day hunting. After eye balling a few clay pipe stems, blue feathered scalloped edge china and some other good signs we realized that we had discovered yet another late 1700s to mid 1800s site. I got an ear piercing signal from the old Tesoro that excited me down to one knee. I dug a crumbling plug and pulled what appeared to be a flat button from the sun hardened clay. Called BB over as I usually do to share the excitement and get his opinion of what I had recovered. He brushed a bit of the dirt off with a sugar cane stem (like we do with a tooth pick) and pointed out what was obviously an eagle. We settled on a military button of some sort and left it at that. After a good tooth picking at home I sent BB a photograph. He looked it up in the Alberts guide to buttons and found a match. NA 71. A Navy button from the 1820s. I am really excited about this find! I cant wait to get back out there and see what else awaits discovery!!

 

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[VOL1266-X]

Very nice Shane. That button's age is consistent with the other 1812-20 buttons you guys have dug there. I unserstand Anthony got hot-LOL. WTG, Quindy.

 

[K Zack]

Very Nice Save, Congratulations.
Thank you for sharing it with us.
Happy Hunting
Kevin

 

[BuckleBoy]

Nice find, my friend. That is the first Navy button I have personally witnessed being dug, CW or earlier. So a big congrats. Nice to see things like that turning up down here. I like that photo I took of you diggin. You can see the low sun on the field, and those ominous storm clouds that dumped torrential rain on us on the way home. Glad we got out of there when we did, hearing the lightning strikes through electrical interference in the headphones is Not a good sign!


Cheers,


Buck

 

[Valley Ranger]

Great save! Worth all that sweat, huh? ;o)

 

[ticm]

Man that us a nice button

 

[CRUSADER]

Howrarrr

 

[oldsalty19]