Florida 1830s buttons.

[Gary Drayton]

Florida 1830's buttons.

Here are some of the old buttons I have found this month in South Florida. They are all beach finds and date to the Florida Seminole indian wars era.

 

[diggummup]

Re: Florida 1830's buttons.

Wow! Those are nice. What the heck beach are you hunting? The oldest thing i've found at the beach is a Mercury dime I think. You in the water?

 

[TORRERO]

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Those are pretty clean to come from a salt water beach...

 

[Lorrain.]

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Terrific button finds, Gary!

Lorraine

 

[cntrydncr1]

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nice looking buttons Gary!!

 

[Les West Central Fl]

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Realy nice antique finds. Be sure to BUTTON your mouth on where you found them!
Congratulations!!

 

[mad4wrecks]

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Nice finds Gary.

And to the naysayers, I can vouch for the guy-he is the real deal.

Tom
www.wreckoverysalvage.com

 

[Elario]

Re: Florida 1830's buttons.

Nice finds Gary.

And to the naysayers, I can vouch for the guy-he is the real deal.

Tom
www.wreckoverysalvage.com

I second that....Gary is a very talented hunter with an incredible work ethic!

 

[diggummup]

Re: Florida 1830's buttons.

Realy nice antique finds. Be sure to BUTTON your mouth on where you found them!
Congratulations!!

He's got that lip buttoned and zipped, believe me!

 

[Tigger]

Re: Florida 1830's buttons.

Amazing! I'm not a naysayer, nor do I want to know which beach, but can you tell us - in the water or dry sand? Did they need much cleaning? Such beautiful detail, and such a neat piece of history - what a nice save!
Tigger

 

[BOXING63]

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Congratulations WTG Gray

 

[diggummup]

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I don't know if any of you remember this story from last year about pre civil war artifacts being dug up on Ft. Lauderdale beach, given the right circumstances it is quite possible. I think I posted this somewhere on this site when they found this but here is the link again-
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2011/05/12/archeological-history-unearthed-on-ft-lauderdale-beach/

 

[TORRERO]

Re: Florida 1830's buttons.

Those are pretty clean to come from a salt water beach...

Just wanted to clarify this, to those who are making "Naysayer" comments.
If this is what you are referring to, you can't seem to read...
I never said they weren't real, I never said he did not find them, I never said anything to indicate I did not believe he was in the least bit untruthful,
I said considering the condition they are pretty clean to come from a salt water beach.
Anyone with experience here knows that salt water will destroy almost everything but gold.
and even though things survive, copper becomes very pitted from the salt water
exposure...
The poster in fact PM'ed me and confirmed that although these came from a salt water beach,
they did not in fact come out of the salt water...
as my belief indicated.
Just to let all of you know....

 

[TORRERO]

Re: Florida 1830's buttons.

I don't know if any of you remember this story from last year about pre civil war artifacts being dug up on Ft. Lauderdale beach, given the right circumstances it is quite possible. I think I posted this somewhere on this site when they found this but here is the link again-
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2011/05/12/archeological-history-unearthed-on-ft-lauderdale-beach/

Just to make clear my comments, I watched the video and it's clear that they were not digging in the
Salt water sand to recover these artifacts.
These are up on higher ground, away from the corrosive affects of the sea salt.

 

[diggummup]

Re: Florida 1830's buttons.

I don't know if any of you remember this story from last year about pre civil war artifacts being dug up on Ft. Lauderdale beach, given the right circumstances it is quite possible. I think I posted this somewhere on this site when they found this but here is the link again-
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2011/05/12/archeological-history-unearthed-on-ft-lauderdale-beach/

Just to make clear my comments, I watched the video and it's clear that they were not digging in the
Salt water sand to recover these artifacts.
These are up on higher ground, away from the corrosive affects of the sea salt.

Hence the term "dry sand"

 

[badman#5]

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I hope you were outside the fence

 

[PI PETE]

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Historically Significant Finds!

 

[birdman]

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Awesome condition!

 

[badman#5]

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looks like you did better then the archaeolgists on the site ,are you going to give buttons to the conservicy? or are you going to sell them.protected sites should be just that protected.there are also graves on this site .could be coins on a dead mans eyes.

 

[Killer Angel]

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Gary, WTG!!!!

You show us what is possible. Thx for posting!