Beautiful Tombac Button circa 1812 or later

[zaxfire69]

Hello everyone. I detected an old house in my town Circa 1812 today. Dug tons of square nails and trash. So I started walking a trail that the rain washed out. Came to a spot where there was alot of pottery shards and bricks. As I was walking something caught my eye. Looked down and low and behold there sits a sweet Tombac button. Right on top of the dirt. Wiped the dirt off and it shined like crazy. I believe it is very old. The house was built in 1812 so it is period. After that i walked across the street to an open lot and dug the gold ring and little road runner. I guess it is a road runner. It has a piece of old turquoise inside the road runner. I get home and wash the pieces off and off comes the gold. I cuss..Then think about the nice button I found and it all gets better. Hope you guys like the pics.

 

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[kevo]

you're right...very nice tombac.

 

[RELICDUDE07]

cool button in great shape

 

[Iron Patch]

Nice one and just because the site is 1812 or later doesn't mean the button can't be earlier.

 

[crazyjarhead]

Very nice find ZF

 

[Captn SE]

Beautiful Tombac, Zax!

Sometimes, our eyes are the best detectors!

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan

 

[allen]

way to go on that neat button...

 

[JerV3]

Really nice button.

They are a 100 to one in my book. I'll find a 100 flat buttons before I locate one of those beauties.

HH Jer

 

[ziphius]

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice one and just because the site is 1812 or later doesn't mean the button can't be earlier.

I agree.

Is there a pattern on the reverse, that would be unusual in my experience.

 

[zaxfire69]

No Pattern. On the back of the button it looks like a Vinyl record. You know how vinyl has the grooves cut into them. That is what it looks like. Like it was spun.