3 buttons and one is my oldest military

McCDig

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Crazy find today. Modern change but then there were a few relics and these were all buttons.

One is a cuff button and another is a lead disk that has a iron shank passed though it.

The third button is pewter and was aptly identified by a Treasurenet contributor as a War of 1812 general service button; this is my oldest military button.
Follow-up on this post is necessary due to recent information on the "U S" piece. Turns out it is NOT a button, so this post is more aptly titled "2 buttons and a US horse harness rosette."

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Thx fyrffytr1! Pretty amazing. Didn't expect military today.
 

Congrats Señor Mike, the buttons keep on coming. About a month a go I found my first war of 1812 button as well.
 

Thx Lilo! This object was identified with help from Treasurenet. I would not have known otherwise. It is a US horse bridle rosette, pre-Civil War.
 

Nice buttons, congrats on the 1812 button! Congrats and HH
 

Thx Lilo! This object was identified with help from Treasurenet. I would not have known otherwise. It is a US horse bridle rosette, pre-Civil War.

Congrats Mike that's also a great relic, Cannonballguy is an expert in early military items, he helped me ID some canister shots I found some months ago.
 

Whoa-ho! Nice rosette!! That is an incredible find. Dunno if I’ve ever see one posted. Congrats
 

Thx Diggin Dude! My correction to this post is that what I initially described as a War of 1812 general service button turns out to be a pre-Civil War bridle rosette, a rare find from what others have said.
 

Yep, helped me too on this one. I didn't have a clue.
 

Thx Scrappy! This is a first for me in a couple respects. It is the first rosette I've dug with letters on it and it is the first US military item I've dug that has just the letters U S.
 

Thx RustyGold! Please note my correction on this item from "button" to "rosette".
 

Thx Dan! Was in Virginia over the weekend and met someone else from Petersburg; he'd travelled to Charlottesville for the UVA basketball game.
 

Thx Scruggs! I don't get tired of buttons.

Here's some detail on that rosette that may apply "(I have omitted the name) served in the War of 1812 as a private in Capt. Henry Thompson's First Baltimore Horse Artillery (aka Capt. Thompson's Co of Cavalry. MD Militia) that saw action in 1814 as a cavalry messenger/observation unit at the Battles of Bladensburg and Baltimore in addition to being the personal guard of Maj. Gen. Samuel Smith, commander of the 3rd Division."
 

Thanks Ken. Going out on a limb with that connection, but perhaps not too far-fetched. Capt. Henry Thompson lived at Clifton Mansion which is still standing in what is now Clifton Park. Went there two months ago to hunt with a friend and dug a Barber dime, my last Barber anything.
 

You've done well lately. My least favorite old coin design besides the Liberty Standing is the Barber series.
 

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