1785 CONNECTICUT COPPER & A ONE PIECE EAGLE BUTTON*NEED ID ON IT

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1785 CONNECTICUT COPPER & A RARE ONE PIECE EAGLE BUTTON * RV-35

sittin home looked at the clock..11 am.what to do? a little voice said go up to the very 1st cellar hole that ya took Dan on your very 1st cellar hole hunt!
so off I went..slow going at first. diggin everything. a lot of iron,a horsehoe,square nails,then a colonial barbecue fork! i mean i've dug colonial meat forks before and they were small but,this one takes the prize! then a tombac button,then kicked and rolled some rotted trees and got a bigger flat button(so I thought) a shoe buckle frame at 10 inches.a butter knife blade with "best steel" stamped into it.last target was 8 inches deep and sounding real nice.dug down and much to my suprise a pretty nice 1785 Connecticut copper.conditions were just perfect,ground was nice & damp. alot of machines including mine have attacked this site and it just goes to show ya that even if ya think a site has been pounded,there's always a keeper or 2 left somewhere.
hoping someone can ID this button.it looks like a rock scraped the eagles head.not sure if this happened while digging it? no back mark. it's a RV-35 very rare Diplomatic button..I wrote to William Leigh to confirm this
72 coppers on the year

 

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thanks everyone! here's a reply from William leigh concerning the button



Hello Dave,
Yes, it is a rare button. Congratulations....it is identified as an early U. S. diplomatic button, but in the early years some of the diplomatic buttons were also used by military officers. McGuinn and Bazelon, in their book American Mililtary Button Makers and Dealers; Their Backmarks and Dates, date the button making of the firm that made these buttons from 1799-1826. The button itself is likely from the Eighteen Teens or Twenties.
Kind regards,
William


William Leigh Civil war buttons,antique buttons,revolutionary war buttons,confederate buttons. phone: (540)338-7367

 

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