My Eagle D button

[wettpaint]

I found this while hunting Saturday morning. My hunting buddy found a nap sack hook and a fired .38 ball.

The pics are before I cleaned it up, I forgot to take pics after cleaning. It is an eagle “D” button with a makers mark of Canfield Bro & Co Baltimore. I don’t know a lot about buttons any information would be greatly appreciated.

Happy Hunting.
Wettpaint

 

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[RJH02]

Nice button.

 

[Tnmountains]

Very nice recovery. Google it and you will learn more than we can tell you. I have a couple as well I think mine are A artillery?

 

[Bill Battle]

I found this while hunting Saturday morning. My hunting buddy found a nap sack hook and a fired .38 ball.

The pics are before I cleaned it up, I forgot to take pics after cleaning. It is an eagle “D” button with a makers mark of Canfield Bro & Co Baltimore. I don’t know a lot about buttons any information would be greatly appreciated.

Happy Hunting.
Wettpaint

Pre-Civil War Dragoon button. Many of these old Dragoon buttons were used by Confederates during the war.

 

[BuckleBoy]

That's a great Dragoon button. They are hard ones to find compared to the General Service eagles and the Infantry eagles.

You could probably gently remove the dirt that is still on the button with a toothpick or wooden skewer.

Here is a post I did a while back on cleaning buttons:

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


Best Wishes,



Buckleboy

 

[brnn53]

Nice D button! One piece is surely pre-CW but as someone else said, could definitely been used early in the CW. Super find!
Mike

 

[MonkeyBoy]

Outstanding button!!

MB

 

[Bill Battle]

Nice D button! One piece is surely pre-CW but as someone else said, could definitely been used early in the CW. Super find!
Mike

Looks to me to be a two-piece button.

 

[SouthArk]

I think Mr Battle is correct..... I think it's a two-piece with maybe part of the back caved in. Canfield, Bro. & Co. was a Baltimore firm in business between 1834 and 1880. According to McGuinn and Bazelon, they did business "as jewelers and dealers in military and civilian goods including civilware, jewelry, clothing, cutlery, firearms, ornaments, and military regalia." They sold these buttons using their backmark, but the buttons were made by Scovill...... citing from the same source. The Dragoon "D" button is a pre-Civil War designation. If you can find a guy on the forums that goes by kcsteve, he may be able to help you out more. He's dug a bunch of the "D" buttons over the last couple of years..... he has an early site somewhere that he's finding them on.

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Great Dragoon! I have yet to dig one. it is on this years "wish list" 8)

 

[wettpaint]

Thanks guys for the info. I need to post some updated pictures of the button cleaned.

I went back to the same site this past weekend and found a bullet. I know you need pics to help, I should be able to post those tomorrow. The bullet has period patina, but it has 2 groves around the bottom that looks machined and it measures to be a 9mm round. The dimensions are 9mm dia. 19mm long and weighs 9.6grams or 146/148 grains and it appears to be solid lead with a cone in the bottom. I found some pics online of a pin fire pistol bullet in a casing. I have not been able to find a pic of the bullet only.

Thanks
Wettpaint

 

[allen]

that button is in great shape to be that old !!