1794 TALBOT, ALLUM & LEE NEW YORK ONE CENT CONDOR TOKEN

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

After work I shot over to a cellar close to home that I thought we hit pretty hard in the past.with all the rain we had and lack of vegetation that little inner voice paid off! some nice stuff came out of this cellar including a Rev War cannon ball that lynne dug. back to back coppers a CONNECTICUT COPPER & a 1794 TALBOT, ALLUM & LEE NEW YORK ONE CENT CONDOR TOKEN (a 1st for me) a couple buttons,a broken iron Jews harp, a piece of pewter with a flowered button design pressed into the face of it & a aluminum bird band that reads Avise call Washington,DC.was spitting snow and raining but,glad I decided to give it another whack!

 

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[HEAVYMETALNUT]

I found this one a few months go; it's pewter.
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what makes you so sure it's a button mold and not just a impression into a piece of pewter?

 

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what makes you so sure it's a button mold and not just a impression into a piece of pewter?

It's square and the size is right for a mid-size button. I'm only guessing that t's mod, but I can't imagine why anyone would have gone to the trouble of making an impression of a button in melted pewter just for fun. But who knows? It's definitely a mystery.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Very nice old coppers. Looks like it was a great hunt.

 

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

It's square and the size is right for a mid-size button. I'm only guessing that t's mod, but I can't imagine why anyone would have gone to the trouble of making an impression of a button in melted pewter just for fun. But who knows? It's definitely a mystery.

yeah but if you are pouring liquid pewter or brass into a pewter mold you are gonna have problems.thats why most molds are brass or iron.