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| Title |
EARLY AMERICAN PATRIOTIC BUTTON |
| Image |
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| Found in |
1999 |
| Found By |
Richard Yanishak |
| Value |
Unpublished |
| Category |
Button |
| Heading |
Silver-plated brass button bearing a snake coiled around 13 eggs |
| Description |
Ever drive past one of those roadside historic markers and think, "One of these days I'm going to stop and check that out"? Richard Yanishak had the same thought, gave in to the impulse, and found an 18th century fort site in a cornfield close by. Permission to detect was duly granted, and then it was time to wait. And wait. Pennsylvania winters can bring on acute cabin fever, but the beginning of 1999 was milder than most, and by February the ground had begun to thaw. Richard called two friends, Larry and Jon, who were also welcomed by the landowner, and away they went! Years earlier, an archaeological dig had been conducted at the site, and the Colonial coppers and buttons the three detectorists were retrieving hinted that history hadn't had its final say there, either. Suddenly, Richard got a strike that froze him to the spot- from a rattlesnake! Okay, not a real rattler...a silver-plated brass button bearing a snake coiled around 13 eggs, symbolic of the 13 colonies. It's an unlisted variety, but the same motif appears on other patriotic American buttons produced >from the post-Revolution late 18th century until at least the 1820s.
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| General Location Found |
18th century fort site |
| Condition |
Good |
| Contact Email |
westeast@treasurenet.com |
| Keywords |
button, snakes |
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Entered s0-217-a-gte.br5.blv.nwnexus.net 2000/05/26 17:56
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