Beautiful CT Seal Button

[Sniffy]

Did the family thing this weekend so I didn't get to spend hours upon hours in the mosquito infested Connecticut woods. However, I did slip out this evening for a couple hours to a site I haven't been to in a year or so. This place is completely briar infested and very hard to hunt. I took some time to smash down some of the undergrowth and make holes to swing the coil in. I figured my attempts of hunting this site again was a flop until I got a very nice screwcap/penny signal at the base of a large briar patch. I assumed it was a button but I didn't know it would be this beauty. This CT seal button has the Canfield & Bro/Baltimore backmark with the shank completely intact and upright. I can't find this paticular button with this backmark....can anyone help? Thanks for lookin!!

 

[MaineRelic]

Your creative hunting paid off for you in a big way ! I don;t find many seal buttons and it;s a happy day when I do M.R.

 

[{Sentinel}]

Nice Civil War/Pre-Civl War era Connecticut Coat Button Sniffy! That sucker cleaned up beautiful

Have to see the design/stlye of the backmark to tell for sure if its an 1850s or an 1860s era:

Here's a link for you to compare your backmark to:

http://www.relicman.com/buttons/zBackmarkCanfield.htm

 

[Indyfan73]

great find today

 

[dwayne sueno]

nice early button, Sniffy,
and sweet job on the cleaning.
hope you can get some more info on it.

 

[umrgolf]

Wow thats a sweet button! Got a CT cuff last year in VA not nearly as pretty, way to go

 

[johnnyblaze]

Nice find man

Very rare find


Blaze

 

[Getty]

That is one beauty of a button recovery!

 

[Sniffy]

Wow thats a sweet button! Got a CT cuff last year in VA not nearly as pretty, way to go
This Canfield & Bro backmark is being a tough one to find on the Seal button. I can only find the Bal. Variety mine says Baltimore.

 

[stillwater]

Wow, what a beauty! Would you mind sharing what method you used to clean her up? Pretty remarkable how well it worked.

 

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

nice Ct cw button Jess! the one i dug last year with you has a scovill's backmark

 

[Sniffy]

nice Ct cw button Jess! the one i dug last year with you has a scovill's backmark

Funny thing...this is actually my first Civil War Button. Wasn't that this year? All this stuff starts blurring together....

 

[sekypaleo]

very VERY nice!!!

 

[{Sentinel}]

Congrats Sniffy on your first Civil War Era button man Tice's CT205A3 [Alberts CT 13] And a Beautiful one I may add, did you use lemon juice or Aluminum Jelly on it? I use both depending on the circumstances of the button. It came out nice regardless

 

[bearbqd]

That's AWESOME! I too couldn't believe how well that cleaned up. I thought that was your button and a stock footage picture. How did you clean that?

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Congrats Sniffy on your first Civil War Era button man Tice's CT205A3 [Alberts CT 13] And a Beautiful one I may add, did you use lemon juice or Aluminum Jelly on it? I use both depending on the circumstances of the button. It came out nice regardless

Nice work on the ID and nice find for sure!