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[Devonrex]

I have searched a long time to find a site like this. As everyone knows this site has yielded some pretty spectacular French Rev War Regimental buttons. We had some pretty substantial rains on Wednesday. My Nautilus loves moist ground and seems to reach incredible depths when the ground is like this. I have pulled musketballs 15 inches deep when the soil is damp like this. This morning I set out for my homesite once more with the hopes of pulling another button from the ground. Little did I know what I was in store for. Once at the site I again started to concentrate at the main site where most of these buttons have come from. Today I told myself I would dig all the good signals as well as those that were "iffy". The iron is so thick in certain areas that good targets are "masked out" and only read good when coming from certain directions but not others. Well like I said I had hoped for one more French button, never dreamed of SIX!!! The buttons are 1 coat and 5 small French turrent shank regimental buttons. Also got what I think is a Rev War neck stock, another 1773 halfpenny, and 5 more musket balls. Best of all the coat is a regiment that I have never pulled from this site, that being a 41. It came out of the ground with the 41 boldly showing! That just made my day!!! Once I clean the others I will update this post. All together now this homesite has yielded 26 French buttons from the Revolutionary War. A site like this doesn't happen very often. I hope everyone gets their coil over their dream find this weekend. HH Devonrex

 

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[kevkirki]

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[bluehunter1973]

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[Devonrex]

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I wanted to post a picture of the buttons after partial cleaning. I couldn't be more happy. The buttons turned out to be 1 coat 41, 4 small 41's, and a very rare small 23. That makes 8 different regiments found at this site. For so many different regiments to be found at this one location this housesite must have been a very important place (or had some very beautiful women!!!) HH Devonrex

 

[Devonrex]

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On another note can anybody tell me for sure what this is. I think it is a neck stock but I'm not exactly sure. And if it is a neckstock what purpose did this serve? Devonrex

 

[kuger]

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Incredible finds Devonrex!

Doubtful that you even need the advice, but that site deserves to be dug until there is not a signal left of any kind!

I'm casting my vote for BANNER, for the entire lot of French buttons including the most recent.

Kuger, are you talking about that Crimean War French regimental button that I researched? It's French alright, but a half century past the American Revolution.

CC Hunter

..yes, CC,I should have been more specific....a later version!!Thanks again for researching that too!!!

 

[ynpto804]

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How do you clean these buttons?

 

[Steve in PA]

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You have amassed a great collection of French Rev War buttons out of that one site. I would love to dig a spot like that!

 

[Devonrex]

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How do you clean these buttons?

[Most of the time, like these, I use a soft brush and toothpick to remove the crust thats built up over the button over the years. I don't even usually rinse them with water because it seems to change the patina to more of a reddish-brown hue. Devonrex ]

 

[oldsalty19]

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[Devonrex]

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Thanks everyone for all the nice responses! Devonrex

 

[timekiller]

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On another note can anybody tell me for sure what this is. I think it is a neck stock but I'm not exactly sure. And if it is a neckstock what purpose did this serve? Devonrex

Very Nice Digs,I don't think it's a neck stock clasp as all the ones I've seen have rivots/studs on the back.Yours looks kinda big too. Here's one I dug & some sites on them.
Take Care,
Pete,
http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/showcat.php?cat=266
http://pegsandtails.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/a-shirt-tale/

Neck Stocks

The stock was altogether a more structured form of neckwear, not unlike a belt, and no doubt a speedier device to don, requiring only the fastening of a clasp or buckle at the back of the neck.


Leather and woven horsehair stocks were often issued for military wear and were fastened with stamped brass clasps or cast brass buckles.