1005 Buttons..........

[CRUSADER]

Dad & I have just broken the 1000 button mark for this year. I only started counting on request of Woody (this year), & its been quite fun finding out.


Picture 1 shows a small area of future bird cover, tiny piece of ploughed land which took 1.5 hours for us to cover. Not much other than a lead piece with IM (pre 18th century JM), no idea what it is.

Picture 2 is 1.5 hours on the land we have been doing recently. This was our last day, as we just noticed a crop coming through.
1 scrappy
Broken buckle
bits....

What can we do this weekend

 

[mlhudson]

GOOD JOB -

ARE YOU STILL GONNA KEEP COUNT ON THE BUTTONS 1005 +++++++

AND YOU KEEP DIGGIN.

MLHUDSON

 

[CRUSADER]

That's a great number, how many silver ones?

none, unless you count, 1 half of a cufflink.

 

[CRUSADER]

GOOD JOB -

ARE YOU STILL GONNA KEEP COUNT ON THE BUTTONS 1005 +++++++

AND YOU KEEP DIGGIN.

MLHUDSON

I will until the end of year, & may consider next year as well. Its for fun & before we were asked, we didn't even keep most of them.

 

[STH69]

cool relics

 

[woody50]

Well Cru I am glad now that I asked you to keep track, its amazing how many buttons you find.
I though that I saw one silver button a number of posts back, I am sure of it because I have found
a few of that type myself. Will see if I can find it.

And yes, try to keep a record for a few years, it would be nice to see if the totals are quite constant.
You could record (or have) the amount of times you have searched also, and find the average button
find per search, that would be interesting so I could compare it with my searches in a different part of
the land.

 

[CRUSADER]

Well Cru I am glad now that I asked you to keep track, its amazing how many buttons you find.
I though that I saw one silver button a number of posts back, I am sure of it because I have found
a few of that type myself. Will see if I can find it.

And yes, try to keep a record for a few years, it would be nice to see if the totals are quite constant.
You could record (or have) the amount of times you have searched also, and find the average button
find per search, that would be interesting so I could compare it with my searches in a different part of
the land.

Your thinking of the 18th century silver cufflink with the flower on it. (almost a button, but had a couple of links to an identical one, so 2 on each cuff)

 

[woody50]

Well Cru I am glad now that I asked you to keep track, its amazing how many buttons you find.
I though that I saw one silver button a number of posts back, I am sure of it because I have found
a few of that type myself. Will see if I can find it.

And yes, try to keep a record for a few years, it would be nice to see if the totals are quite constant.
You could record (or have) the amount of times you have searched also, and find the average button
find per search, that would be interesting so I could compare it with my searches in a different part of
the land.

OK, understand. My button(s) look alike, but are buttons. Maybe they made both at the same time
back then, not so difficult of course.

Your thinking of the 18th century silver cufflink with the flower on it. (almost a button, but had a couple of links to an identical one, so 2 on each cuff)

 

[tinpan]

thats quite a lot of buttons, Congrats Crusader,British Empire silver buttons are hard ones to find.I have only 15 all are colonial Australian .Heres a pic of the best one i have found so far.
So for the score sheet Crusader NIL tinpan 15 lol

tinpan

 

[CRUSADER]

thats quite a lot of buttons, Congrats Crusader,British Empire silver buttons are hard ones to find.I have only 15 all are colonial Australian .Heres a pic of the best one i have found so far.
So for the score sheet Crusader NIL tinpan 15 lol

tinpan

I was talking about this year only, so you have 15 silver buttons this year!!!! WOW

 

[CRUSADER]

Well Cru I am glad now that I asked you to keep track, its amazing how many buttons you find.
I though that I saw one silver button a number of posts back, I am sure of it because I have found
a few of that type myself. Will see if I can find it.

And yes, try to keep a record for a few years, it would be nice to see if the totals are quite constant.
You could record (or have) the amount of times you have searched also, and find the average button
find per search, that would be interesting so I could compare it with my searches in a different part of
the land.

OK, understand. My button(s) look alike, but are buttons. Maybe they made both at the same time
back then, not so difficult of course.

Your thinking of the 18th century silver cufflink with the flower on it. (almost a button, but had a couple of links to an identical one, so 2 on each cuff)

If you mean the flower type (circular), then its most likely a high grade tombac type. I have a few of these & they are mid-18th century as well.

 

[woody50]

Well Cru I am glad now that I asked you to keep track, its amazing how many buttons you find.
I though that I saw one silver button a number of posts back, I am sure of it because I have found
a few of that type myself. Will see if I can find it.

And yes, try to keep a record for a few years, it would be nice to see if the totals are quite constant.
You could record (or have) the amount of times you have searched also, and find the average button
find per search, that would be interesting so I could compare it with my searches in a different part of
the land.

OK, understand. My button(s) look alike, but are buttons. Maybe they made both at the same time
back then, not so difficult of course.

Your thinking of the 18th century silver cufflink with the flower on it. (almost a button, but had a couple of links to an identical one, so 2 on each cuff)

If you mean the flower type (circular), then its most likely a high grade tombac type. I have a few of these & they are mid-18th century as well.

OK, understand, I though something like that too.. thanks