West Jersey Detecting
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I finally got around to cleaning out my home office which doubles as my laboratory. It has hundreds of old buttons, bottles of hydrogen peroxide, aluminum jelly, an electrolosys tank and my photo equipment. My wife says it looks like the lab of a mad scientist, and keeps checking the closet for cadavers. 
I was putting hundreds of flat buttons carefully into some boxes this evening, when the light struck one just right and I made out the shape of a wheel. Upon further examination, I realized it was no flat button, but a small Artillery button. It is not in very good shape but I am able to get enough detail to narrow it down to what I think it is. It measures 15mm and has no remaining back mark. My best guess is an 1814-1821 Artillery Corps button Albert's AY-55 AV.
Here are two views, the second is with a little petroleum jelly to bring out some of the detail.
I was putting hundreds of flat buttons carefully into some boxes this evening, when the light struck one just right and I made out the shape of a wheel. Upon further examination, I realized it was no flat button, but a small Artillery button. It is not in very good shape but I am able to get enough detail to narrow it down to what I think it is. It measures 15mm and has no remaining back mark. My best guess is an 1814-1821 Artillery Corps button Albert's AY-55 AV.
Here are two views, the second is with a little petroleum jelly to bring out some of the detail.
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