1790s GW MOURNING CUFFLINKS, 1810 1/2 REAL AND A CONFEDERATE BUTTON

[PEles]

1790's GW MOURNING CUFFLINKS, 1810 1/2 REAL AND A CONFEDERATE BUTTON

Man that was fun! Got out this week with a great group of friends. We do it once a year and have a blast. It always is when our group gets together.The house we rented was nice. Not too many places you can walk out the back door gather fresh oysters off the banks and come in and steam em. That was awsome ,Clay did the harvesting Only thing bad about this week was the weather and the land we hunted. The rain got us for 3 days and we couldn't hunt and the properties we landed had either been hit hard or were colonial with no marked buttons turning up. We hit one site that was loaded with flat buttons but that was about it, we dug about 100 buttons none marked though. Now that was a large site but kinda disappointing. Dennis and Mike Scott of First Texas detectors dug 2 pretty nice coins out of if it though. A gorgeous KG copper and an 1812 real.Mike also dug a nice confederate script I button and another 1812 1/2 real out of another spot we found. I know some of the guys were disappointed, but you can't control the weather or what's on certain tracts of land when you have 13 hungry diggers. We haven't laughed that hard in a long time, it was fun as always . We have a great group of friends and I love them all like brothers. Well here's what i dug other than some flat buttons.

The Hun

 

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[Goes4ever]

Wow killer hunt! Love those cufflinks!

 

[grasshopper]

Sounds fun! And yes, I agree...those cufflinks are pretty awesome!!

 

[Tnmountains]

Looks like a successful hunt to me. Good friends good food and relics. Life is grand sir. Glad you all had a great time. Nice additions to your collection.

 

[JmCraz8]

Wow awesome day and that confederate button is a great find along with the cufflinks, congrats!!!!!

 

[Jyverb64]

Looks like some great finds!

 

[matt092079]

Great looking finds!

 

[John Boy]

Congrats on your button and cuff links.awesome hunt.way to go.

 

[tennessee digger]

Those are some great looking finds! I love the cuff-links and and the coin and SC button ain't too shaby neither. And, for what it's worth, you always take excellent pictures. What kind of camera do you use? You can't control the weather, and like a lot of sites around here, you can't control what is there and who has hunted it. I think you did pretty good! Tennessee digger

 

[fishstick]

Those CUFFS are BEAUTIFUL PIECES OF HISTORY!!!!! CONGRATS... HH

 

[Argentium]

If those are GW related this should be banner ! Can you give us more info about these- as related to GW ?

 

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[granthansen]

Really really cool finds. Congrats!

 

[CRUSADER]

I like all those finds. I'm just not sure where the GW connection comes from? It's a fairly common image on British 18th-early 19th C Cuff links, there are no strong arguements that the 'Urn' was mourning use only. It's a neo-classical design taken from the Gentlemens Grand Tours, to show off their breeding. ie. they knew of Roman/Greek antiquities because they saw it first hand. They decorated their houses in a similar manner, an early talking point.

 

[materdigger1]

Great finds - That button is in fantastic shape - HH

 

[N.J.THer]

Cool cuff links...I hope it turns out to be a George Washington mourning piece. Do you have these listed somewhere as that or are you basing it on the design from the George Washington Funeral Urn Medal? Nice piece either way but GW would be huge and the first I have ever seen. Good luck

NJ

 

[s.c.shooter]

Awesome finds Pete, Congrats.

 

[Huber Sumter SC]

Great finds. I noticed the sc button. I am in sumter sc and can't wait to learn how to use my new whites dector and get out and find something.

 

[Lcb24kt]

Congrats on the cuff links! Awesome!

 

[Ashman]

Awesome finds, sounds like it was a great time out there... CONGRATS...