North and South Buttons only 7 feet apart

[bearbqd]

I'm very pleased with a current trend of mine. A few months ago I found a nice Virginia button only 5 feet away from an eagle general service button. I think I topped that today with gorgeous Connecticut and North Carolina buttons found only 7 feet apart. I found both of these only feet from the 32 Spencer round hole. Had I gone in that direction the other day, I would have found all of them together. The NC one has what I understand is a fairly rare backmark of Kent Paine & Co, Richmond. The Connecticut one has a Scovill Waterbury backmark. I'm amazed at the quality of finds in this little area of woods where apparently cavalry was posted. My buddy I was with found another Spencer cache of 9 rounds about 100 feet away from where I found mine.

Three epaulette keys and the two long parts are epaulette fasteners as well. Those five items were also all found in the same hole together. I need to go back and move a large dead tree that these items were beside to see if I can find the rest of the epaulettes that they came from.

Also found a nice variation three ringer, a probably rare .553 Sharps and Hinkins round and 4 possibly rare either .453 Colt Dragoon repeating rifle rounds or they are possibly .44 Watervliet rounds. I know the picture only shows three of them. I managed to lose one, although i don't know how as I secure them as I find them in capped cigar tubes. When I emptied them out to clean everything I only had three. It's a mystery. Almost forgot, the little 14k gold piece is a mystery as well. I think its part of a cuff link but I'm not sure.

Also found some more Spencer cartridges but no lead. This area is starting to be great to me. Can't wait to get back there but its an hour away and the wife is getting back from Florida the day before my next day off so I think that day is out. Thanks for looking.

 

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[Diggit]

Excellent finds! Those buttons have a lot of gilt left.

 

[WHADIFIND]

Yep, nice finds indeed! Plus you did something else for me. You reminded me of all the mini-balls I had found the first go-round. I knew they were from the era, but have never looked into the different types I may have in hand.

Also, you identified one of my buttons for me. I have that very same Conn. button but not nearly in as good condition as yours.

Good hunting!

HH

 

[3RINGER]

Nice finds bud. Those buttons are sweet.

 

[CSA2K]

Killer!!!

 

[brnn53]

One of the nicest NCs I've seen out of the ground. That thing is gorgeous! Both buttons in fact! Awesome digs and keep hitting that spot!
Mike

 

[CMDiamonddawg]

Big Congrats !! ya gotta like that dig site .. Great looking CW buttons . Those fasteners look familiar , dig em' up here every now and then . Nice pics too

 

[prolab69]

Wow, just imagine what took place within those 7feet for those buttons to turn up,
great post.
Pro-

 

[tennessee digger]

Mighty nice finds! Great pictures too. Me likes. Tennessee digger

 

[civilman1]

Helluva dig Barry....Like Mike said,GORGEOUS!!!! Keep em' coming

 

[Steve in PA]

Great all around digs, but those two buttons are spectacular!!

 

[ivan salis]

do you think was it campsite area used by both sides or was the site a campsite that was ambushed ? -- battle site or dual used campsite? --with the items only a few feet apart , battle site sounds possible as men fight one another at close quaters button would tend to pop off --but camp sites are often where most items are lost in general due to the amont of time spent in camps and all the clothing and equiptment repairs made while in camp

 

[JmCraz8]

Fantastic finds, congrats!!

 

[Marinehunter]

Congrats those are some really nice buttons.

 

[jewelerguy]

awesome buttons. congrats!

 

[Giant056]

Awesome bunch of finds and beautiful buttons

 

[CKaufman]

nice buttons. still waiting for my first nc button

 

[cntrydncr1]

those buttons are beautiful!! congrats on the gold!

 

[jamesbibb]

Good stuff both those are damn good quality. Super Nice NC KENT PAINE

 

[goldnugget]

Congradulation : It look like a Relic show.