Devonrex
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Absolutely gorgeous British Rev War "Tudor Rose" Lieutenant button dug today!!!
It was just in 2012 that I dug my first regimental British button after 30 years of digging. Well today I can say I have now dug two! I have always wanted to dig one of these buttons. This is a British "Tudor Rose" button, copper planchet with stand up shank with almost all of its gold gilt. The intricacy of the design of the tudor rose in just amazing! You can see this tudor rose clear across the room!!! It is just gleeming with gold gilt. You literally need to put your sunglasses on! LOL This button was used by the British to signify the rank of Lieutenant from 1748 to 1787. Undoubtedly this button was lost by a British Soldier here in 1781. I found this button in less than 1 inch of sandy soil today! It was my only good target of the day. But man oh man what a target!!! The buttons face retains approximately 50 percent of the gold gilt but the back has 100 percent! Even the stand up shank on the reverse has gold plating on it. It most closely resembles BNL.b. in Don Troini's Insignia of Independence on page 20 but doesn't have a bone back. It is a big button measuring 28mm, much bigger than my MacDonald's 76th regiment button. I love finding relics directly associated with the battle of Yorktown . Today I can finally cross another British relic off my bucket list!
It was just in 2012 that I dug my first regimental British button after 30 years of digging. Well today I can say I have now dug two! I have always wanted to dig one of these buttons. This is a British "Tudor Rose" button, copper planchet with stand up shank with almost all of its gold gilt. The intricacy of the design of the tudor rose in just amazing! You can see this tudor rose clear across the room!!! It is just gleeming with gold gilt. You literally need to put your sunglasses on! LOL This button was used by the British to signify the rank of Lieutenant from 1748 to 1787. Undoubtedly this button was lost by a British Soldier here in 1781. I found this button in less than 1 inch of sandy soil today! It was my only good target of the day. But man oh man what a target!!! The buttons face retains approximately 50 percent of the gold gilt but the back has 100 percent! Even the stand up shank on the reverse has gold plating on it. It most closely resembles BNL.b. in Don Troini's Insignia of Independence on page 20 but doesn't have a bone back. It is a big button measuring 28mm, much bigger than my MacDonald's 76th regiment button. I love finding relics directly associated with the battle of Yorktown . Today I can finally cross another British relic off my bucket list!
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?!!! Goodness, what fantastic finds!
