CW Button, Powder Flask, Etc.

BuckleBoy · Feb 3, 2008

Hello All,

I managed to get a CW Eagle button on Saturday and a 3-ring minieball, along with a piece of a powder flask. My buddy Foxhound got a 1/2 Reale (1789). Here are a few photos. The backmark on the Eagle is Horstman Bros. This is the first Horstman backmarked button I have found--all the rest of my Eagle buttons are Waterbury or Scovill. Also nice to get a few CW relics at a house site for once. Last few Eagle Buttons found at house sites have all been pre-Civil War.

Regards,

Buckleboy

Nana40 · Feb 4, 2008

Beautiful button, BB! Congrats on that GREAT hunt!!

Nana

skunemonk · Feb 4, 2008

This is really strange! I found the same flask on Sunday afternoon. It was about 6 to 8 inches down along a stone wall. Also found both sides. It has a scratched engraved name on it of J. B. Hudson. I have no way to post pictures - scanner down. I'll try to have a friend post the pics. P.S. Found in Hudson Valley, New York.

BuckleBoy · Feb 5, 2008

skunemonk said:
This is really strange! I found the same flask on Sunday afternoon. It was about 6 to 8 inches down along a stone wall. Also found both sides. It has a scratched engraved name on it of J. B. Hudson. I have no way to post pictures - scanner down. I'll try to have a friend post the pics. P.S. Found in Hudson Valley, New York.

That's REALLY cool! Welcome to the FLASK CLUB!

Gary 60, These finds were found in Indiana.

To answer the question above, the CW button is already cleaned. If the patina looks like it isn't brittle, and the button is in nice enough shape to make a good display item, I gently use a toothpick to clean off the dirt and light corrosion spots. This one took about 20 minutes. The one in the photos in the post below took almost an hour. (5th photo down, lower button) Time well spent.

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,133992.0.html

Regards,

Buckleboy

BuckleBoy · Feb 6, 2008

bmanley99 said:
It rang like a huge piece of scrap metal, but I dug it anyway, and was SO glad I did!

When digging in old house sites, it is a MUST that we remove the junk iron and large trash from the sites--that's the only way to even hear the goodies below and around such large junk. Of course, trade axes, powder flasks, and buckles will ring with overload signals as well--and in PLOWED fields, a quarter plowed up to the very surface can even give an overload signal. So in short, I dig all the iron out of a site--sometimes as much as 50 or 60 pounds of it--and I haul it away and dispose of it.

Regards,

Buckleboy