🥇 BANNER John Adams portrait cufflink just found need help.......

[Calabash Digger]

I just tagged this John Adams portrait cufflink today . I would appreciate any information that you guys might have on it...tried to pick the 3 best shots I got of it.. also tagged this script A but its wore down..



S.C. KEITH got these buttons today too.......

 

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[Argentium]

The image put up by creskol is pretty much bang on to what you have . Is it certain that what you have is a cufflink , not a button ? I'm not sure it's an important distinction - but i raise the question since the image creskol put up was in the context of buttons .

 

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[Calabash Digger]

Don't know but Bill D the guy who wrote that killer colonial book said he had never seen or even heard of a John Adams example.

 

[TWray]

Now thats just as neat as it gets. Congrats.

 

[Jeff H]

Major hurt feelings Calabash. That thing is awesome!

 

[Calabash Digger]

My hunting partner found one at heritage auctions that sold a couple years ago ..... they said there are less than 10 known examples............. holy cow find of a lifetime!

 

[Argentium]

See if you can put up some of the Heritage Auctions documentation and any images , this is turning out to be possibly a huge find !

 

[Calabash Digger]

It has the prices in it so let me see if I can edit that part out might be tomorrow before I can get it posted...if I can

 

[Calabash Digger]

 

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[CRUSADER]

The image put up by creskol is pretty much bang on to what you have . Is it certain that what you have is a cufflink , not a button ? I'm not sure it's an important distinction - but i raise the question since the image creskol put up was in the context of buttons .

Academics call one half of a cuff-link or linked-buttons - 'buttons'. So its 'technically a button' however I would never catalogue it as such. I would put it in the cuff-link collection, not the button collection. Although some where probably on the cuff, I can see this one being better used as a link-button at the top of the neck. (for show)
What I like is we can date this one to the 1790's, which help proves many of the similarly constructed types are of this age. Something I knew but had little real evidence of.

CONGRATS to the OP on the BANNER.

 

[The Seeker]

That is a great find.....Another piece of History!

 

[Calabash Digger]

Thanks everyone for the comments and votes. Man I'm so stoked about finding this piece I couldn't hardly sleep last night and was up at the crack of day to see what everyone said.. thanks again everyone.

 

[pepperj]

Congrats on your great piece of history, I hope you'll display it well as it deserves a special spot. It got up there quickly as well, on that a congrats on your first.

 

[GB1]

congrats on banner

 

[Silvermonkey]

A most remarkable find! Congratulations on finding such a neat piece of American history!

 

[WannaDig3687]

Wow! What an awesome find! Congratulations on the banner!

 

[Calabash Digger]

Thanks, it really hasn't sunk in good yet though .... man I cant believe it. You just NEVER know what going to come out of the ground.

 

[GopherDaGold]

Wow!! Awesome find and well deserved banner!

 

[fishstick]

What a BEAUTIFUL piece of history!!!!!! Another one of those GEMS that I never knew existed..... BIG CONGRATZ CD!!!!!!!!!!

 

[creskol]

Thanks, it really hasn't sunk in good yet though .... man I cant believe it. You just NEVER know what going to come out of the ground.

I feel the same way, and I didn't even dig it! Congratulations on a banner worthy find of epic proportions!