British 65th Officer button In Excellent Shape.

Bryan6059 · Apr 24, 2014

Managed to find this button, and wanted to share the before and after pictures after some cleaning. The before is just a scrub with some soapy water. The finish was done with the help of some lemmon juice!

turned out beautifully

CASPER-2 · Apr 26, 2014

Iron Patch · Apr 26, 2014

CRUSADER said:
You can wish for buddies, but unless a uniform got burnt on the field, the chances of another one coming off the same jacket is low.(not impossible, just unlikely) Other types are more likely...

Pretty unlikely the coat was thrown away at that point because it was no more than a few years old and obviously still being used by the soldier.

ColonialDude · Apr 26, 2014

Beautiful button!! One I have not seen before. I like it!!

CMDiamonddawg · Apr 26, 2014

beauty of RW officers button ,

that is a winner fo sure ! :headbang:

dawg

CRUSADER · Apr 26, 2014

Iron Patch said:
Pretty unlikely the coat was thrown away at that point because it was no more than a few years old and obviously still being used by the soldier.

that was my point, really

GioTheGreek · Apr 26, 2014

Gorgeous button!

Rick (Nova Scotia) · Apr 26, 2014

Very, Very nice indeed. I got a 66th last year, but not near the amount of silver left on it.

Bubba65 · Apr 26, 2014

That is one AWESOME BUTTON, CONGRATS on that button. My Banner vote is in, condition and rarity make this a BANNER FIND for sure :thumbsup:

Tnmountains · Apr 27, 2014

I am surprised it cleaned so well for its age. Great restoration and save on an obviously very rare to find button!
HH

Bryan6059 · Apr 27, 2014

Ahab8 said:
That is a beautiful button! Man I can't believe how well it cleaned up. To me that is easily banner worthy. No offense to some of the jewelry and stuff that goes up sometimes but to me the historical significance and condition of that baby coupled with the fact that a very low percentage of the few in the ground are gonna come out looking like that, let's start this banner party. Take a few nice close ups of it. I'm gonna vote. Love it

gave it another scrub and cleared a bit more grime off it and this is as good a closeup as I can get with my own camera

Ahab8 · Apr 28, 2014

Bryan6059 said:
gave it another scrub and cleared a bit more grime off it and this is as good a closeup as I can get with my own camera <img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=985924"/><img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=985924"/>

It looks amazing and I hope people will look again and realize how nice a find this is. I think it's incredible. Thanks for the new pics

romeo-1 · Apr 28, 2014

That's a beauty!

g-olden years · Apr 28, 2014

Congrats on beautiful historic button! :icon_sunny:

Andi

cjon455 · Apr 28, 2014

Very nice button!

AQUA · Apr 28, 2014

Sweet button !!!

Amazes me how they stay that good a shape after 240 years!!

Great specimen.....makes me jealous as I,m on a dry spell...that will look great in your display !!!!!!!!!!!!!

My BANNER vote is in.

Bryan6059 · Apr 28, 2014

AQUA said:
Sweet button !!!

Amazes me how they stay that good a shape after 240 years!!

Great specimen.....makes me jealous as I,m on a dry spell...that will look great in your display !!!!!!!!!!!!!

My BANNER vote is in.

couldnt agree more aqua! I just cant wait to get back at the spot (hopefully this weekend! the long range shows cloudy, and hopefully the rain holds off) and hope to add to the nice assortment of finds

jewelerguy · Apr 28, 2014

sweet!

johnnyblaze · Apr 28, 2014

That is a beauty man :headbang:

Blaze

Bryan6059 · Apr 28, 2014

johnnyblaze said:
That is a beauty man

Blaze

thanks! very thrilled with it....... ps, love the rock god avatar you got there

CRUSADER · Apr 30, 2014

In all the thousands & thousands of buttons I have found, I only have 1 silvered officers Button as nice as that one (not this Reg), but the fact you got it over there makes the History far more important than mine!