🥇 BANNER A funny and Fantastic start to Fall!

[Iron Patch]

Still a couple of more weeks before Ironhorse is ready to dig, but I got out for 4 hours today, and did not at all expect results like this!


So this is my kick-off for Fall, and my last year digging has been very good, so I decided to give myself a bit of a goal this year... like a challenge. The challenge was to find something good enough to have published in Western & Eastern Treasures magazine, something I have never done, but obviously being a member of the T-net have seen several others do it. And going hand-in-hand with that, I would have to assume my find, whatever it would be, would likely make the banner here.... I mean if it's good enough for the magazine right? lol So thinking a little more, and this is totally true, I was going to make that my theme for the Fall and title my posts something like... The road to Western and Eastern hunt 1... or the road to making the Banner hunt 1. So I was really going to do that, but what happened today was pretty funny given my 'big' plans, so I decided to scarp that idea and just explain why it's funny.

So I get to my fields today, walk across one IH and I had hunted, but it was the two on the other side I wanted to dig. Turns out both were still planted so had to stay in the one I was, which wasn't so bad as it's huge and there was a site with plenty of targets in the middle, and I dug a beautiful 76th button in Dec. 2015 at the bottom. So I'm making my way down and getting close to where I had dug the 76th and get a target, dig the hole and have it out, but realize I dropped my pinpointer. So I leave the hole open and my shovel there, and start looking for my PP... and lucky for me my Deus can send out a signal and make the PP sound off... and turns out it was just a few feet away. So it took me about 2 minutes to sort that out and have it back, but that was long enough for the thought to go through my mind... wouldn't it be awesome if the target I found was another of those 76 buttons. So I get back to the hole, locate the target, and in disbelief it was another freakin beautiful Rev War 76th officer button. When I found the one in 2015 http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/t...in-up-again-old-copper-trail.html#post4770302 it gave me a super high, but this one was more like .... you got to be kidding me! Of course at that point I know I have to hunt this place hard and not 5 minutes later I see another silvered military in the dirt and think good lord I have the coat size now too! ...but did not turn out to be the case, but was another very nice button... Perth Highland Fencibles (1797-1803) I hunted about another hour just getting a few plain buttons, but did dig my third early military for the day... an Argyllshire Volunteers button (1803-1808) I sure never seen anything like this coming from that bottom corner of the field, but am very glad where I thought I wanted to be was still planted!

Now here's what cracks me up. I have my whole magazine /make the banner plan, and what do I go out and do... dig pretty much the exact same thing that got me my last Banner. Not that I'm complaining, but that just ain't right.

 

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[Trezurehunter]

What a trio of outstanding buttons !

 

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[CRUSADER]

Stunning condition 76th. But I really like the look of the PHF!

 

[ironhorse]

I don't think it's that funny, it's pretty serious in fact.
Serious relics happening here!
These are the kind of things that will be near the top row of the button case

 

[Ahab8]

BANNER easily in my opinion! Condition is stunning. Those will look beautiful in the display. It blows my mind how many Rev buttons you guys find up there.

 

[Patriot Relics]

Beautiful 76th, man the soil is kind up there in the great white north

 

[Steve in PA]

Wow, that 76th is stunning. The others are nice as well, but Rev War usually trumps War of 1812.

 

[CRUSADER]

I've been thinking this post over & I'm voting for a BANNER day, as the 76th is stunning & your got 2 other bonus scarce buttons, one of which I really like, no idea if its rare or not.

 

[Iron Patch]

I've been thinking this post over & I'm voting for a BANNER day, as the 76th is stunning & your got 2 other bonus scarce buttons, one of which I really like, no idea if its rare or not.

I'm not sure about the rarity either... but the one they show on the militia website is pretty toasty. That said, there was so many militia units I'd guess plenty of the buttons are rare, but that doesn't mean there is a big demand or they are very valuable. I still think it should have been a coat size 76th all being in the same corner of the field.

 

[Iron Patch]

I must have just missed the deadline to edit, having taken a little better pics before the induction ceremony into the button case! I'll put them here to come back and grab for the year end post.

 

[Calabash Digger]

YOU ARE THE MAN!!!

 

[Aureus]

Congratulations on the banner. Although I voted for the 76th

 

[jeff of pa]

Congratulations on the banner. Although I voted for the 76th

the 76th, was the one that gave him the Banner.

But a 76th button also Gave him his Last Banner.
was time to go with something Different.

You can still see the 76th in his Post

plus Don't want anyone thinking all 76th. Buttons automatically
should be Voted on. Ya Know what they say about "Variety"

 

[mindcrime1988]

I would smiling for days if not weeks if I were to find buttons as nice as those. Congratulations on some sweet history saves.

 

[Iron Patch]

the 76th, was the one that gave him the Banner.

But a 76th button also Gave him his Last Banner.
was time to go with something Different.

You can still see the 76th in his Post

plus Don't want anyone thinking all 76th. Buttons automatically
should be Voted on. Ya Know what they say about "Variety"

I'm glad that is the case, because otherwise you would have been better off to have waited for me to get home today to post.

 

[Jyverb64]

Those sure are beautiful buttons congrats!

 

[jeff of pa]

So a certain button gets enough votes but you instead put up another of his buttons

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[eyemustdigtreasure]

Nice stuff!
Didn't think BUTTONS could be so cool!

 

[Donnie B from VA]

Beautiful and historic. You just gotta love those buttons.

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

No insult intended, what is a “76 button”?
Obivously it’s historically significant and rare to find. Assume it’s a famous regiment associated with a particular battle.

As mentioned in my other recent banner comment, not everybody is familiar with what makes your find unique. Educate us so we can know what we are looking for.

Great find

 

[Iron Patch]

[h=2]76th McDonell's Highlanders[/h][h=2]History[/h]The regiment, which was raised in the west of Scotland and western isles of Scotland on 25 December 1777, by the Clan MacDonald, consisted of seven companies of Highlanders: two of Lowlanders and an Irish company.[SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][2][/SUP][SUP][3][/SUP]
It was presented with its colours at Inverness in March 1778 and moved into barracks at Fort George. In March 1779 it moved to Perth where, following a dispute over their pay and bounty payment, soldiers from the regiment took part in the Burntisland mutiny of March 1779, whilst under the command of Major John Sinclair, 11th Earl of Caithness (Lord Berridale), after which it was transferred to Jersey in the Channel Islands and embarked for New York in August 1779. Sinclair, the Earl of Caithness was himself badly wounded during the Siege of Charleston, which took place from March to May 1780, where American and French forces were defeated.[SUP][4][/SUP]
The regiment campaigned from March 1781, under the command of Major Francis Needham, 1st Earl of Kilmorey (who was also the regimental Colonel of the 86th Foot) in the American Revolutionary War and fought at the Battle of Green Spring in July 1781 where they defeated the French Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. The regiment was captured in the Siege of Yorktown three months later in October. It was split up and the troops were interned at various locations throughout Virginia. Following the end of the war, in 1783, it returned to Scotland and was commanded by Sir Robert Stuart. The regiment was finally disbanded at Stirling Castle in March 1784.[SUP][3][/SUP]