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A day filled with buttons

VTSwinger

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Northern VT
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Garrett AT PRO
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Metal Detecting
Found all these in a small area off the shore of Lake Champlain. A variety of eagle buttons, a cavalry button, wheaties, V nickels, and some stuff I'm still trying to ID.
 

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Sweet score, congrats. Your brass item on the left looks like a tent rope tensioner. (tightener?) Sub 8-)
 
Great finds Thanks for sharing em with us. Looks like you have a great site to hunt wow!!!! Welcome to tnet!!!!
 
I agree with the tent rope tightener. Could be Civil War or later. The two large discs are WWI era collar discs.
 
You guys are great! Thanks for the info! I had been calling them buttons for lack of a better word and not finding anything. And the rope tightener, I would have never guessed but I knew it wasn't just scrap. All my good targets were at the end of the range of my detector and there were a lot of iffy signals that I passed on. After researching how to get the most out of my AT Pro I'm excited to go back and dig a little deeper.
 
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EAGLE buttons look like late 1800s' - other stuff looks like 1890 - 1920
probably a WW I training camp - do some research :thumbsup:
all those relics are collectible - specially the collar discs - those can go for $25 and up
but even those brass tent pulls are worth saving - seen them sell on some sites for $5
 
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You found a super location!
 
quite a haul there, a nice variety of the good stuff
 
Some really nice military buttons there. Congrats.
 

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