A Few More Buttons

Ahab8

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So I think I've finally cleaned out the colonial spot that I've been hunting. I put the T2 in all metal today and rescanned the area. Pulled some very deep buttons which makes me wonder if there's some coins down really deep. This makes a total of 32 buttons from this spot. Some fancy and some plain. Noticed that one of Saturdays buttons had some gold color underneath the top layer. I hit it with a but of naval jelly and it's kind of interesting looking. Also found a pewter button today with a ferrous shank.
This site has produced the 32 colonial buttons, a 1787 Connecticut copper cent, a beautiful 1802 DB Large Cent. 2 shoe buckle frames, a monogrammed silver spoon piece, and best of all very little trash. This was a fun one all will certainly help the button display. Thanks for looking and best of luck out there guys, Abe
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Old Dude

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Your button collection is quickly becoming one to rival people who have been doing this for years! Congrats to you Abe. Hope the next site is kind to you as well.
 

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Great finds!Nothing beats finding dandy buttons, especially with designs on them.
 

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Killer hunt my friend. Those buttons are awesome. Congrats on another great one.
 

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Ahab8

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Your button collection is quickly becoming one to rival people who have been doing this for years! Congrats to you Abe. Hope the next site is kind to you as well.
Thanks OD! It's nice to have so many big dandy buttons with nice designs. The next site I've got my eye on has some pretty ridiculous history. Starting in 1608 and sporadically until about 1690. Nothing more recent. 2 forts and a 1614 fishing settlement. Then in the 1680s there were about 70 people there attempting to escape the native hostilities. It should be a fun one and it's not very big
 

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Ahab8

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Great finds!Nothing beats finding dandy buttons, especially with designs on them.

Thanks Tim I think about 20 from this site are designed. Should definitely help the button display
 

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Ahab8

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Killer hunt my friend. Those buttons are awesome. Congrats on another great one.
Thank you buddy might head to a new one for a bit. Maybe back in the fall
 

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Good work bud, now back to the grind! Going to be very hot in my neck of the woods, glad to see you were not fighting with any more yellow jackets!
 

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Nice Colonial buttons agin Abe ! Awesome finds ! I was playing in late 19th early 20th century trash all weekend . Next weekend I have what should be a good colonial hunt planned with Lookingforbust . keeping my fingers crossed but it should be a good one ! MR
 

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Awesome buttons bud! So many come up blank, but the design on yours is great! Keep up the good work
 

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Nice Colonial buttons agin Abe ! Awesome finds ! I was playing in late 19th early 20th century trash all weekend . Next weekend I have what should be a good colonial hunt planned with Lookingforbust . keeping my fingers crossed but it should be a good one ! MR
Very cool bud. I love heading for a new colonial site. Good luck man I'll be waiting to see your great colonial digs
 

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Good work bud, now back to the grind! Going to be very hot in my neck of the woods, glad to see you were not fighting with any more yellow jackets!
Thanks bud. Think I'll hit a new one for a bit and go back in the fall
 

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Looking good man! I know a good one is hiding in there for you.
Thanks Dan! Glad I got the nice DB out of there and a couple nice buckles but I am really hoping there's something special out there
 

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Awesome buttons bud! So many come up blank, but the design on yours is great! Keep up the good work
Thanks buddy if was awesome to get so many designed buttons
 

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Great finds. Congrats
 

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wow, you are going to have to expand to display your buttons properly. must be really awesome to pull the out of the ground, to be able to see the various differences between them and to wonder who lost them. a lot of very cool history there.
 

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You may well have it hunted out, but more often than not you could be very surprised what can turn up after the frost leaves next spring. One of my first older sites I hunted a few times, even a couple of times with snow on, so it was gridded well in three directions, next spring I got three more coppers in just one short hunt.

That said nothing better than a new (old) site that is target rich.
 

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Thank you for sharing that fun dig and those pictures
 

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