CMDiamonddawg
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Autumn Hunt , 1700's British Brown Bess buttplate
9-22-10 Last day of summer but within a few hours , First Autumn hunt temp. 90 degrees :P Sure didn't feel like Fall weather > Saturday I forgot my camera on the passenger seat . It baked in the heat and the cheesy ,plastic mechanism that extends the zoom lense is cooked .
without my trusty digital. I went back to some older turf that had produced colonial buttons and some nice old iron in the past . The button finds started with the first decent hit . Nice pewter buttons ! Hit a spot with a lot of square nails and some shotgun shell tops . Under all these signals I kept hearing this erratic sound , hit something , a brick 
Ran the coil over the brick hole and almost blew my eardrums out . Figures 
, would have been a good pic & no camera . Looked into the hole ..a brass butt plate ! Ya Hoo ..grabbed it out of it's hiding place ... definitely a piece of a 1700's British Brown Bess 
{ A picture of a replica is posted for comparison . For those who are not familiar with this weapon , a brass butt plate is on the bottom of the wooden stock } see pic# 2 ... Some more iron parts that may belong to a gun . I found what looks to be a military cap emblem, with a piece missing , fancy brass plate with letters HM ? , one .69 cal musket ball , and a few more relics . The top of the plate has an small 1/2 " end broken off , it wasn't a fresh break . Most male citizens of the American Colonies were required by law to own arms and ammunition for militia duty. The Bess was a common firearm in use by both sides in the American Revolutionary War. Please forgive my scanner pics , these are the best I can do until I get another camera . Engraved top has the vine border ,in the center is a round or oval shield with two crossed trumpets surrounded by flowers and leaf patterns . {fourth pic} Inside has B 14 stamp that is barely visible . Not cleaned . Any help on the ID of Crossed Trumpets under an Oval Shield would be appreciated . Pic # 9 is an 1853 Enfield parts from last year . Lucky , CW > colonial ! Quite a day, I hope everyone has their BEST cool weather digs !! Thanks for looking . CMD
9-22-10 Last day of summer but within a few hours , First Autumn hunt temp. 90 degrees :P Sure didn't feel like Fall weather > Saturday I forgot my camera on the passenger seat . It baked in the heat and the cheesy ,plastic mechanism that extends the zoom lense is cooked .
without my trusty digital. I went back to some older turf that had produced colonial buttons and some nice old iron in the past . The button finds started with the first decent hit . Nice pewter buttons ! Hit a spot with a lot of square nails and some shotgun shell tops . Under all these signals I kept hearing this erratic sound , hit something , a brick Ran the coil over the brick hole and almost blew my eardrums out . Figures , would have been a good pic & no camera . Looked into the hole ..a brass butt plate ! Ya Hoo ..grabbed it out of it's hiding place ... definitely a piece of a 1700's British Brown Bess { A picture of a replica is posted for comparison . For those who are not familiar with this weapon , a brass butt plate is on the bottom of the wooden stock } see pic# 2 ... Some more iron parts that may belong to a gun . I found what looks to be a military cap emblem, with a piece missing , fancy brass plate with letters HM ? , one .69 cal musket ball , and a few more relics . The top of the plate has an small 1/2 " end broken off , it wasn't a fresh break . Most male citizens of the American Colonies were required by law to own arms and ammunition for militia duty. The Bess was a common firearm in use by both sides in the American Revolutionary War. Please forgive my scanner pics , these are the best I can do until I get another camera . Engraved top has the vine border ,in the center is a round or oval shield with two crossed trumpets surrounded by flowers and leaf patterns . {fourth pic} Inside has B 14 stamp that is barely visible . Not cleaned . Any help on the ID of Crossed Trumpets under an Oval Shield would be appreciated . Pic # 9 is an 1853 Enfield parts from last year . Lucky , CW > colonial ! Quite a day, I hope everyone has their BEST cool weather digs !! Thanks for looking . CMD
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Cape May county will be producing some killer coins this Fall. I feel it in my bones. It is supposed to be nice this Sunday, so the KKC team will be back at the Colonial grind. I had to purchase a new Vibra Probe pinpointer this week ($129 deficit 
Thanks ,Kirk
That is nice .. these parts must be scattered all over Jersey ..We both need to build camera's at this point in time 
Trying to get another one . Anyway when I get something that was part of some history ,I feel much better . Engraving is a thing of beauty but holding the piece over a scanner with the lid open just ain't making it happen ... most here could care less about historic gun parts 
Where's the rest of it? 
unfortunately , the Brown Bess here is just a part 
but a part that you can see , today . 
best Autumn dude dawg
