A Pleasant Surprise: Artillery Corps Button

[West Jersey Detecting]

I finally got around to cleaning out my home office which doubles as my laboratory. It has hundreds of old buttons, bottles of hydrogen peroxide, aluminum jelly, an electrolosys tank and my photo equipment. My wife says it looks like the lab of a mad scientist, and keeps checking the closet for cadavers.

I was putting hundreds of flat buttons carefully into some boxes this evening, when the light struck one just right and I made out the shape of a wheel. Upon further examination, I realized it was no flat button, but a small Artillery button. It is not in very good shape but I am able to get enough detail to narrow it down to what I think it is. It measures 15mm and has no remaining back mark. My best guess is an 1814-1821 Artillery Corps button Albert's AY-55 AV.

Here are two views, the second is with a little petroleum jelly to bring out some of the detail.

 

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[steelheadwill]

Nice Save!
I love this type of Flat Artilleries,
I thought I had just one type with 10 balls in the pile,
noticed last night that I have one with 6 balls.
I have a copy of Tices uniform Buttons, I need to get the Alberts also.
Thanks for Posting! Herbie.

 

[dfx willy]

nice one neil!! willy

 

[Kyle PA]

Good eye, Neil! That's why I always check my flatties, because you never know what may show.

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Good eye, Neil! That's why I always check my flatties, because you never know what may show.

I check every single one as well. I am not sure how I missed this one, but maybe sitting a few days or weeks after the peroxide bath brought out detail that wasn't there before. Or maybe I am just getting careless in my old age

 

[CMDiamonddawg]

Good eye, Neil! That's why I always check my flatties, because you never know what may show.

I check every single one as well. I am not sure how I missed this one, but maybe sitting a few days or weeks after the peroxide bath brought out detail that wasn't there before. Or maybe I am just getting careless in my old age

Doesn't happen to me because these are few and far between {older than CW military buttons} down here in the Cape . Great find and Many More for 2011

 

[MaineRelic]

Thats why we keep everything ! Good save ! MaineRelic

 

[Woodland Detectors]

What a beautie. Those are always welcomed!