Early-mid 1800s Homesite! 1837 Hard times token, LC, and buttons!

[Noah_D]

Howdy! Went out for about two hours yesterday... just about NOTHING. Turns out I was in the wrong part of the field, sooooo... I redid my research and found the actual location of the early 1800s homesite on the property. The house showed up on a map in the 1850s but was gone by the 1870s so I think it must have been built pretty early on because why would you get rid of a new house am I right?

I went out for about 2 hours today as well and was much more fortunate, it took a while to find the first relic, but I spotted it right on top of the ground as soon as I heard the ACE 300's high tone–music to my ears. The rest were fun to find and I was super excited about the token (I thought it was a largie till I brought it home, now I am even happier! I'll post a better picture of it tomorrow) It reads "Millions for Defense" and is from 1837.

I think the eagle button is a navy button from the early 1800s or a look-a-like but I don't know.

I think the item in the top right of the picture is an old button, I think I see where the shank was attached but I am confused about the indentation in the center of the obverse. Any ideas on a time period?

The other button is just a normal backmarked flat button but I have a question about the back mark, what I can read is "OVILL I? ?" and "WAT" so I think it is a Scovill manufactured button, but I cannot find much on the internet on Scovill backmarks like this that don't have "MF'G" on it.


and here's for a few in the field shots...


One more thing I found near another house site on the property... Not sure what it is yet.


Thank y'all for reading and happy hunting! I am going back for more tomorrow!

 

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[SultansOfSwing]

Very nice! Great detective work.

 

[CRUSADER]

In the bottom right hand picture you can see an up-side-down face on that 'coin like' thing.

 

[ToddsPoint]

Maybe this one? Gary

 

[Noah_D]

Maybe this one? Gary

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Thats the one! There's a ton of varieties though and I am not sure which I have yet.

 

[Noah_D]

In the bottom right hand picture you can see an up-side-down face on that 'coin like' thing.

Thanks Cru! I definitely see what you are talking about, if you don't flip the picture it looks sort of like a fleur de lis.

 

[Noah_D]

Very nice! Great detective work.

Thanks SultansOfSwing!

 

[invent4hir]

Noah_D, that is one nice assortment of finds for 2 hours

 

[Noah_D]

Day 2 @ Early-mid 1800s homesite

I went back for some more... here's another two hours worth and some pictures from the first hunt.


1837 Hard Times token.


Flat button on top of the ground.


Small button with some sort of design on it.


Everything from this hunt.


Both hunts (4 hours)

I also spent close to an hour looking for a second site but didn't find too much. Happy hunting!