A Royal Heart breaker and Rev Officer

[Iron Patch]

Out today with my usual diggin bud and did not get off to a good start thinking the crop was out at our 3rd NY site, but it was not. So we went to a huge field we've hunted twice and got very little, then tried a new place and got nothing, then to another place, tried the bottom and it just wasn't happening. There was a site at the top of the field so decided to try there and very glad we did.

First pic is my junk for the day, followed by my find of the day, an early fairly scarce Royal Marines Officer button with a nasty hole right through the center. Damn it would have been nice! But even so I am happy to have found it, and it looks like a much better candidate for restoration than I had originally thought. The third button is my friend's find, it's a Rev War Officer button. (King's American - 4th Regiment) Clearly they both have issues but we have never dug two officer buttons in the same day that were this rare in near 10 years of detecting together, so it was a good day.


PS... The last button has actually been cleaned. We kept a close eye on it, and upon close inspection it seemed removing the more patina would not increase the gilt so my friend decided to be happy with it as is. I'm pretty sure that's the right call because a black button with the same gilt you see would not be as nice.

Also check out the last pic, friend dug two "6" ringers?

 

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[wyattrr]

Nice Digs...Cool Button. Congrats IP!!

 

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[Iron Patch]

Nice IP! Is your friends button the same as your banner one?

For the most part yes, except the size is different, 24mm vs his 17mm, and the cuff abbreviates the word Regiment.

I just saw your button again on the token thread, the patina makes it look like marble

ok, but just for clarity that was not the banner one on the token thread, and is the same type as in this post. (17mm)

 

[shaun7]

Nice IP! Is your friends button the same as your banner one?

For the most part yes, except the size is different, 24mm vs his 17mm, and the cuff abbreviates the word Regiment.

I just saw your button again on the token thread, the patina makes it look like marble

ok, but just for clarity that was not the banner one on the token thread, and is the same type as in this post. (17mm)

Yeah, they both look like marble

I had a feeling you were going to say that, i was only 7mm out!

 

[hogge]

AWESOME FINDS! Congrats on those buttons! Too bad about the hole. Still some tremendous relics! Hogge

 

[Kyle PA]

IP, do you find many Colonial shoe or knee buckle frames where you are at? I don't recall seeing any posted by you over the past two years.

 

[Iron Patch]

IP, do you find many Colonial shoe or knee buckle frames where you are at? I don't recall seeing any posted by you over the past two years.

I just posted under another thread about this.... no, very few early buckles here. Doesn't make much sense considering everything else we find, but that's how it is.

 

[Kyle PA]

IP, do you find many Colonial shoe or knee buckle frames where you are at? I don't recall seeing any posted by you over the past two years.

I just posted under another thread about this.... no, very few early buckles here. Doesn't make much sense considering everything else we find, but that's how it is.

You seem to be in the same boat as us. We rarely come home with a big pile of flat buttons like you. I guess none of us should complain. You find the military buttons like they are going out of style and we do the same with coppers (175+ dug in 2.5 years).