A crazy rare Revolutionary War period General Washington cufflink.

[Aureus]

Got a nice holiday miracle this morning.
While going through various pieces of copper from my late December detecting trip I have noticed a pretty worn but interesting partial cufflink that seemed to have a right facing profile on it. I didn't pay too much attention to it at first, thinking I might have found one of the George III profile pieces.


To my surprise,after a bit of the research,it appears to be one of the rare types of early American patriotic jewellery. In fact, Heritage Auctions had a silver cufflink of the exact same type describing it as an Extremely Rare Circa 1775-1780 George Washington Shanked Cufflink The price realized seems to corroborate their statement and they mention knowing of only one other existing piece of this type (no mention of existence of the brass ones what so ever).


You can notice the clearly visible letters G-E (General) on the lower left and W-A (Washington) on the top right.
It's funny, but just a few days ago I was complaining to a friend of mine about the fact that I have never found any GW relic and questioning the possibility of ever finding one.Well it seems like I got way more than what I was hoping for as this item predates the inaugural buttons and was made before the end of the Revolutionary War.

Thanks for the comments.

 

[civilman1]

That's weird there's not any mention of the brass ones. Killer find

 

[Happa54]

You gotta a prize find. Congrats!

You guys get all the good stuff back East

 

[washingtonian]

Very cool find. Looking forward to hearing more about it as you continue your research!

 

[Digger RJ]

Awesome!!

 

[smokeythecat]

Nice, be careful not to clean it.

 

[Locke]

Amazing find!

 

[Aureus]

That's weird there's not any mention of the brass ones. Killer find

Thanks civilman1

 

[Aureus]

You gotta a prize find. Congrats!

You guys get all the good stuff back East

Yes, but you guys get all the good weather back West. It's a frozen tundra over here.
Thanks man.

 

[Possum]

Awesome find and great save, thanks for sharing and Congrats!!! "D"

 

[CRUSADER]

Great find.

This to me proves why the other so called funeral Urn types are not GW or you would make it clear like this one - CONGRATS.

 

[Relicific]

That’s a very unique find.
Lots of history
Congrats

 

[A2coins]

Awesome display item That is a really cool piece of history

 

[Reanm8er]

Very nice Aureus, Banner!

 

[Iron Patch]

That is a crazy rare and great find! If that silver one was to come up today I'm sure it would go for double or tripe or more... so even in that condition I think you have a pretty awesome find!

 

[jewelerguy]

It's funny, but just a few days ago I was complaining to a friend of mine about the fact that I have never found any GW relic

that's an awesome find. Now you need to complain to your friend that you've never found a treasure chest

 

[Aureus]

Very cool find. Looking forward to hearing more about it as you continue your research!

Thanks. What I really hope is finding the second one as there's a good chance it's still there.

 

[Silvermonkey]

I didn't even know this existed...pretty incredible! Congratulations!!!

 

[toasted]

Not a bad find to have come from your scrap pile

 

[dfallis1]

Very cool. Nice find. Congrats! Nice ID as well