WAR OF 1812 BUTTON CACHE

[grasshopper]

So yesterday I went back to the 1780's house where I have made many discoveries over the past few years. I've pulled large cents, IH's, seated and spanish silver out of this site, including much more.

I was going over an area in the front lawn where I'm pretty sure I've covered before, and I got a penny-type signal on my XLT. I dug and at 4 or so inches was suprised to see a silver glimmer. I pulled it out gently, and noticed it was an old button. I went inside to clean it off and show the owner...I knew it was something pretty rare!! At this point I'm shaking...rescanned the hole and received another similar signal. Thought holy crap another one!! I had it pinpointed and carefully dug around the signal as to not damage it. I got it out of the plug and to my amazement i see a huge clump of these buttons next to the hole!!!

There ended up being a total of SIXTEEN of these buttons. Most were attached by a string, like someone carried them around as replacements. This string fell apart upon cleaning. I've lightly brushed these whith soap and water, and about 6 or 7 seem to be in beautiful condition. The others have some green corossion. They are all identical, shank is still on each one.

They read: REGIMENT OF INFANTRY around the edge. 21 Rt. underneath the eagle.
Back reads: GILES RICHARDS BOSTON with a small eagle.

Based on my research, these are definitely from the war of 1812, and this regiment was involved in my area (Lake Champlain).

Talk about the find of a lifetime....any info on rartiy/history/value would be much appreciated!!

[Bry]

Nice!!!!

[GAdirtfishin]

great find....Banner vote from me!!!!

[lumpsums]

im speechless! if they are authenic thats banner all the way.

[Trezurehunter]

Man, You guys are all smokin on the buttons this week. Thats a great find.

[Iron Patch]

Now that is great!!!!

The good news is you can pretty much get all that green off and they will be even more stunning! Just don't start cleaning unless you know what you're doing.

[kilmer]

Wowser, twist my arm and I will vote BANNER! Quite a find and very, very impressive when lined up in the photo. Congrats, those great finds are even more special when they sneak up on you.

Don
HH

[capri_auto]

Man, caches of silver, gold, and now buttons... Iron Patch, do you think a little lemon juice will get the green off? Amazing find!

[zaxfire69]

Speechless.. Banner

[MSRelic]

Amazing find. Beautiful buttons. Banner vote here.

[Blind Squirrel]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

[Silver Searcher]

Amazing find, surely a Banner find the picture of all them buttons as they come out of the ground, with the string still attached

SS

[Diggincoinz]

Wow those are absolutely awsome!

[mainer]

That is amazing. You got my vote for sure.

[Hutch911]

WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW thats all I can say

[Woodland Detectors]

Holy cache of beautiful buttons batman!

I can't vote banner fast enough!

Amazing!

[Iron Patch]

BTW... minty 1812 officer buttons like that, depending on what they are, can fetch somehwere in the few hundred dollar range. So even if it was $250 each that's a good score. Will be interesting to see if you can find some sales to get some type of reference.

[CRUSADER]

Seen a similar lot of buttons on here before, not the same type although similar timeframe. Makes you wonder if it was part of a button sellers lot

If you don't have the string, at least you have the picture, so keep that safe Great story, & dream find for most button hunters

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

the mother lode for sure! BANNER! congrats! they are in beautiful shape too!

[CRUSADER]

BTW... minty 1812 officer buttons like that, depending on what they are, can fetch somehwere in the few hundred dollar range. So even if it was $250 each that's a good score. Will be interesting to see if you can find some sales to get some type of reference.

So might be $4000 on a good day

I think they should stay together