FOUND-Mass Volunteer Militia Cuff Button

[riverdiver]

I finally got into the river to dive and for some bottle digging in an area that previously gave me CW Infantry coat buttons. When low and behold I dig this tiny cuff button between two submerged logs and under 2-clay pipe bowls about a foot into the bottom. Research states it is a pre Civil War, Civil War era Massachusetts Volunteer Militia cuff button-WOOHOO.

 

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[trapperart]

Nice button congrats

 

[Mzjavert]

 

[G.A.P.metal]

Wow very good find Albert`s MS 34,and Tice`s MS208 .
Albert`s states
Collectors have excavated many of these buttons at early Civil War sites,but they were made during the Antebellum years.
Gary

 

[dirtlooter]

well preserved, great save

 

[RustyGold]

Very cool find! Congratulations!

 

[relic nut]

Sweet button! Congratulations!

HH, RN

 

[riverdiver]

Thank you for the info Gary, its been a while since I posted anything. This was an awesome little discovery in 15' of water and a foot into the bottom.

 

[sgtled3533]

Sweet find! I dream of taking a trip from Cali out to some old civil war sites. Amazing history out there and some well preserved relics! Nice save!

 

[riverdiver]

Thank you sgtled3533,
I am from Simi Valley, CA originally and have been relic diving in New England since 1988

 

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[btjbtj]

What an incredible find! And still in pretty good shape considering it was in the water. Congrats. -Lisa & John