Took a couple days to clean it up - CW from Black Friday

smokeythecat

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I shopped in the dirt. Seriously. Went to the one camp and did VERY well, considering how hard it is to find relics in a place that's been pounded over 40 years! The Deus gets past the big and little iron and sucks the stuff out.

IMG_1154.JPG Three percussion caps, a tiny cloak clasp and friction primer. This is my first friction primer since about 1991! I rarely get into artillery areas.

IMG_1155.JPG Sharps bullets, the nose of a melted mine and camp lead. One item was a round ball that had been fired.

IMG_1156.JPG Nice little vest buckle, quite minty and cartridge base.

IMG_1157.JPG A gathering of eagles! More than I have ever dug in one day! Included here is one eagle I.

IMG_1158.JPG Another pic of the primer, top to a powder flask and iron buckle.

IMG_1159.JPG Section of a pipe and porcelain button.

IMG_1160.JPG Underwear buttons...lots of underwear buttons.

IMG_1161.JPG Nails directly from the CW campfire.
 

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GopherDaGold

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Amazing collection of relics! Great hunt!
 

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Nice hunt smokey !
 

VTColonialDigger

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Those are some great Civil War finds! Looks like a fun and successful day!:icon_thumright:
 

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Great relics wo I love those Eagle buttons seems like buttons werent fastened very well back then lol which is good for the relic hunter. Those are alot of great finds keep it up my friend. Tommy
 

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Nice finds and identifications!! Congratulations on such a great day!!
 

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Well done, again! awesome job at squeaking out those hard finds in the iron
 

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Wow! Great finds. Love those buttons. Congrats.
 

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smokeythecat

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I am getting tired of the underwear buttons...not getting anything Confederate at all of the site.
 

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Now that's my kind of Black Friday shopping spree! :thumbsup:
Looks like you had a 100% savings! :occasion14:
 

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That is quite a successful day! Congrats on all of it! Button mania! That must have been a really fun hunt!
 

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smokeythecat

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You got that right about the buttons. Some need to be conserved, it takes awhile to do it correctly. Several of the eagle buttons were literally stuck to pieces of iron ration cans. A nightmare to detect - at best.
 

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Smokey, you've identified so much of these things. I didn't even know that underwear had buttons!
 

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Nice job on all the Civil War relics Smokey. That was quite an outing.
 

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Smokey, Congrat's to you on a Super Shopping Spree at the dirt Relic Mall. Great collection of CW finds and saves. That was a very productive 1 day hunt for sure. I really like the collection of buttons and the Artillery friction primer. All good finds that are sure to display well in your collection. Continued Success to you. Shopping malls on black Friday? You don't need No Stinkin' malls. Lol
 

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