gold gilted buttons

[sonny61]

Found some nice gold gilted flat buttons at an 1800's homesite yesterday.

 

[Tank69]

nice buttons

 

[CRUSADER]

If you soak the right one in lemon juice for 1 hour it will come up real nice

 

[BuckleBoy]

Some beautiful c.1830s civilian buttons there. I agree with Crusader. Either lemon juice or aluminum jelly will make them shine like the sun.


Nice work.


Here's a post on button cleaning I did a while back:

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,165857.0.html



Regards,


Buckles

 

[sonny61]

Thanks for the cleaning info. They have been washed in dishwashing liquid with a toothbrush and then had alumnum jelly applied to them. I guess mother nature took her toll on them.

 

[PAUL2006]

COOL FIND

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Any day when you get three nice buttons like that is a good day detecting!

Congrats!
Neil

 

[Buck(PA)]

Nice Buttons!!! Especially liking the one in the middle! HH

 

[Ifoundit69]

Sweet finds , defenitly something to display !

 

[DCMatt]

Very nice fancy buttons. Is the big one marked Benedict & Burnham?

I found a B & B button recently with the same background as your coat button. Mine had a cluster of grapes on it. It is early 1840's. Benedict & Burnham later became Waterbury.

DCMatt

 

[sonny61]

The big one is marked "B & Burnham Extra".