ALWAYS check your flat buttons!!!!

[diggervet]

Been too messy and wet and cold to hunt lately so spent part of yesterday going through some older flat buttons and items and noticed a faint lettering on one that I hadn't cleaned. Turns out to be a riflemans button produced between 1808 and 1812. Always check them for lettering, designs etc. This is the oldest identifiable button I've found to date!! Thanks for looking and happy hunting!

 

[Darby]

Awesome button!!!

 

[park pirate]

Damn nice button...

 

[UnderMiner]

Sweet! It's great when you can discern the age of a relic.

 

[DigIron2]

that is really nice.Rifleman buttons are always rare to find.Don't know if i have ever seen one from that period.Nice

 

[VOL1266-X]

Nice DV! As BB will tell you, check all brass carefully. HH, Q.

 

[Old Dude]

I don't think I have found a button that I didn't check. Super nice one!

 

[gheenoe78]

Great find! How did you clean it? Is it copper?

 

[Ahab8]

That's a killer find. I always wonder how many incredible buttons never get identified and tossed in with the rest.

 

[parsonwalker]

Man, that's a BEAUTY. Was it near the 'ville??

 

[jdsly]

Wicked killer button!

 

[Mach1Pilot]

Now that is an awesome flat button! Congrats!

 

[ivan salis]

is that a Roberts Rifles button---- RR?

 

[bzbadger]

What information led you to your finding? Would be so cool and im doubting what im saying here, if it was from Roger's Rangers from the Revolutionary war

 

[diggervet]

just cleaned it with soapy water and a toothbrush and I think it's copper

 

[diggervet]

central Va find

 

[creade]

What a great button I always check my buttons,usually anything that's hidden is on the back