Cornfield gives up some old buttons

[TwoRivers]

Did some hunting in a corn field today and found some old buttons, civil war and colonial.. I haven't researched the identity of the buttons yet, so your guess is about as good as mine as to what they actually are........It was fun !!!

Thanks for looking................John in Va...

 

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[BurntBear]

Very cool finds!

 

[romeo-1]

Nice finds! I love digging in corn fields in the spring but they can be a real pain in the fall...but with results like that I'd swing all day!

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Very nice button finds!
Coming out of a plowed field they look darn good!

Dave

 

[tennessee digger]

Your eagle button is not a civil war era button but is considered an Indian war button (post civil war). Good finds!

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Tennessee Digger is right... button #1 is the 1875-1902 version of US Army "general service" uniform button for Enlisted-men. Military button collectors call that version the Indian Wars eagle-button... and have nicknamed it the "chicken-eagle" button because the eagle's head, neck, and short wings look somewhat more like a chicken than an eagle.

Button #2 is a civilian usage brass "fancy" flatbutton. I think I can discern enough of its backmark's lettering to tell it says "Benedict & Burnham." That company was in business with that name from 1834 to 1843.

Final photo:
The object in the center is a civilian-usage horseharness rosette, from the early-through-mid-1800s. All of the buttons surrounding it appear to be brass 1-piece flatbuttons, dating from the latter-1700s through about 1840.

 

[DiggityDiggity]

Neato finds! Amazing they've lasted this long in a worked field.

 

[Old Dude]

Great bunch of relics. I will be happy when the fields are cleared here. Nice saves!

 

[Blueblood]

Nice buttons!

 

[TwoRivers]

Thanks for help on identifying my finds and all the comments...............John in Va..