Hello All,
I resisted the urge to post about this site for quite a while, because I wanted to keep it a bit of a secret. Well now that the field is planted, all bets are off on hunting it again. (I actually got one more hunt in right after I made this video, and dug a great find I'll post soon!) Well here it is, a ton of seated silver and some incredible buttons dug by my wife Diggergirl and my buddy Shane!
Watch the video on this amazing site (it's long but worth it--one day I forgot my camera lol so there are some still photos in the middle of the video).
So I'll just post photos of the finds below. My wife with one of the pocket full of minieballs we've dug!
Seated dime cut down to half dime size.
M1858 Remington Revolver Trigger Guard:
Mid-1800s breath mint tin (Hooper's Cachou Aromatise):
More silver! 1852-O is a lower mintage coin
Handheld oil lamp:
Cartridge box finial and a big, heavy piece of silver:
Shane's Texas Navy (which he made a separate post for!)
U.S. Corps of Artillerists and Engineers Button I dug (1799-1802)
North and South! My wife's beautiful Eagle button and a Louisiana Pelican (backmark on the Pelican is "H.E.BALDWIN & CO / NEW-ORLEANS" which is a backmark we haven't had before! It's LA220A1 in the Tice book :
Minieball made into a fishing sinker:
Native American point (tiny one!). These are VERY rare to find in South Louisiana. We don't have rocks here, so there was nothing to make them from!
Double barrel shotgun breechblock:
pre-war convex eagle one-piece button:
lead tobacco tin lid toppers (first photo below), numerous minieballs and .44 cal pistol civil war bullets (not pictured), plow-destroyed silver half reale, shoulder scale button, civil war (not pictured), and cartridge box and cap box finials:
Silver eyeglasses frame fragment made between 1819 and 1838 by Louis-Michel Crouvezier, who worked in Paris at 25 rue St-Martin, followed by a photo of a non-dug pair with the fragment I found circled:
And some photos of the combined finds:
Best Wishes and HH,
Buckleboy and the CaneField Bandits
I resisted the urge to post about this site for quite a while, because I wanted to keep it a bit of a secret. Well now that the field is planted, all bets are off on hunting it again. (I actually got one more hunt in right after I made this video, and dug a great find I'll post soon!) Well here it is, a ton of seated silver and some incredible buttons dug by my wife Diggergirl and my buddy Shane!
Watch the video on this amazing site (it's long but worth it--one day I forgot my camera lol so there are some still photos in the middle of the video).
So I'll just post photos of the finds below. My wife with one of the pocket full of minieballs we've dug!
Seated dime cut down to half dime size.
M1858 Remington Revolver Trigger Guard:
Mid-1800s breath mint tin (Hooper's Cachou Aromatise):
More silver! 1852-O is a lower mintage coin
Handheld oil lamp:
Cartridge box finial and a big, heavy piece of silver:
Shane's Texas Navy (which he made a separate post for!)
U.S. Corps of Artillerists and Engineers Button I dug (1799-1802)
North and South! My wife's beautiful Eagle button and a Louisiana Pelican (backmark on the Pelican is "H.E.BALDWIN & CO / NEW-ORLEANS" which is a backmark we haven't had before! It's LA220A1 in the Tice book
:
Minieball made into a fishing sinker:
Native American point (tiny one!). These are VERY rare to find in South Louisiana. We don't have rocks here, so there was nothing to make them from!
Double barrel shotgun breechblock:
pre-war convex eagle one-piece button:
lead tobacco tin lid toppers (first photo below), numerous minieballs and .44 cal pistol civil war bullets (not pictured), plow-destroyed silver half reale, shoulder scale button, civil war (not pictured), and cartridge box and cap box finials:
Silver eyeglasses frame fragment made between 1819 and 1838 by Louis-Michel Crouvezier, who worked in Paris at 25 rue St-Martin, followed by a photo of a non-dug pair with the fragment I found circled:
And some photos of the combined finds:
Best Wishes and HH,
Buckleboy and the CaneField Bandits
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Nice job as usual BB. 
