???? Colonial Button ????

[Rogue Relic Hunter]

**Cleaned the button since posting this thread. Definitely NOT colonial, word BEST on back of button.**

BUTTON
1901 INDIAN HEAD PENNY
SMALL FLAT BUTTON
SQUARE NAILS

I dug this pretty little button today. Since learned word BEST on back. I also dug a few other buttons and a 1901 Indian Head in good shape. Also dug two square nails and a few modern bullets. It was a good day for 3+ hours in a cotton field.





*The button is a little smaller than a clad dime.



Button Front (close up)



Button Front. Dug with the XP Deus.


NOTE: Since cleaning, BEST is visible on the back. Def NOT Colonial. Note to self, clean button 1st.




1901 INDIAN HEAD PENNY AND SMALL FLAT BUTTON ALSO DUG TODAY






SQUARE NAILS

 

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[CRUSADER]

1840s I think, so post Colonial.

 

[Rogue Relic Hunter]

1840s I think, so post Colonial.

Interesting. Why you think this to be true? I have some buttons from that era.

 

[CRUSADER]

Interesting. Why you think this to be true? I have some buttons from that era.

Because it looks like a jacksonian button, ooops which are 1830s & 40s!

 

[Rogue Relic Hunter]

Because it looks like a jacksonian button, ooops which are 1830s & 40s!

Looked those up. ALSO, cleaned the button. had BEST on back, DEF not colonial. lesson learned, clean first. thanks for weighing in. I like those Jacksonian buttons and saved link to them, posting below

jacksonians

 

[Kray Gelder]

I was thinking Scottish, with the thistle. Searched, but could not find it.

 

[Rogue Relic Hunter]

I was thinking Scottish, with the thistle. Searched, but could not find it.

i'd be interested in researching that some more. i always learn things, that is part of the enjoyment of this hobby. never thought i'd turn into a buttonologist.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice looking button find!

 

[CRUSADER]

i'd be interested in researching that some more. i always learn things, that is part of the enjoyment of this hobby. never thought i'd turn into a buttonologist.

Not many people do until you detect for a few years. I had no interest in buttons when I started & I used to sell them like my other items in the scrap pile. Now I regret that & keep them all like all my other finds.

 

[Rogue Relic Hunter]

Not many people do until you detect for a few years. I had no interest in buttons when I started & I used to sell them like my other items in the scrap pile. Now I regret that & keep them all like all my other finds.

agreed. i started in the hobby in the 90s looking for treasure off shipwrecks on the south coast of texas on the border of mexico. let me tell you, those finds were so far in between and i thus got bored quickly. as the hobby morphed into other directions, it got more interesting. i'd never think i'd be interested in old buttons. how about this? nails. i also collect old nails and try to date them.