My first "Dandy" Button!

West Jersey Detecting · Apr 18, 2008

My first "Dandy" Button!

Nothing special, with 5 more buttons from the "button field" today. I have now found 24 buttons at the site, along with the 1809 Half Cent (http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,151437.0.html). This one appears to be a "Dandy" button, which were popular in the 1790's, if I remember correctly. All 24 of the buttons were found in a small area inside a huge field which has only yielded the one coin. The field is remarkably free of trash; the only targets being buttons. I also picked up as many ticks so this may be my last trip there until the late fall.

DugHoles · Apr 18, 2008

Re: My first "Dandy" Button!

That is a "dandy" of a button............sorry.......I had too....... :tongue3:

Cheers!

Dugholes :laughing7:

Colonial Zoyboy · Apr 19, 2008

Re: My first "Dandy" Button!

I love dandy buttons. I only found one in my short Colonial hunting career.

Kyle

Evolution · Apr 19, 2008

Re: My first "Dandy" Button!

Nice button. It's always a bonus when you get one with a design on it. :thumbsup:

allen · Apr 19, 2008

Re: My first "Dandy" Button!

nice find...

dgaughan · Apr 19, 2008

Re: My first "Dandy" Button!

nice button neil good luck and hh

Don in SJ · Apr 19, 2008

Re: My first "Dandy" Button!

Congrats Neil on your first Large Colonial button, I'm sure more to follow, they are readily available at the sites in Southern New Jersey. They are always a thrill and disappointment to find. The thrill is that they almost always have a design on them and their age is colonial to early Federal period, so old coins are always associated with them. The disappointment is the fact that you were hoping for a large copper and it was a button. $:-\$

Here are some of mine I have found over the years, not sure how many my son has found, but I'm sure he has a fair amount also from the same sites we hunt together. Until I really cleaned them, I was surprised that just about every one of them that I thought were just plain large flat buttons had designs on them, sometimes they really had to be super cleaned, the ones I soaked in Olive Oil my first 15 years or so of detecting were the hardest ones now to clean the rest of the dirt off.

Again, good luck in getting number 2,3,4 and more.

Don