My first War of 1812 Button

wayfas4u · Nov 28, 2020

Very sparse historical finds in the area But history books say otherwise.Laying on top of the ground! Passed over it for the last several decades literally. After A decent rain this little guy was revealed. My detector was messing up I thought, so I changed search Coils and did a test by throwing a quarter and dime down on the ground. As I was scanning with larger search Coil I noticed a penny on the ground Near the quarter.

Or so I thought. Artillery second regiment with Leavenworth Hayden and Scovill backmark.

Professor of Engineering · Nov 28, 2020

Very nice find, congrats! :occasion14:

Must be a day of buttons, I found 3-flat and one flowered. :dontknow:

fyrffytr1 · Nov 28, 2020

As you well know, I don't like you!

Truth · Nov 29, 2020

What a beauty absolute beauty that is full of history and that one as a back Mark that I didn’t know they had. I was metal detecting a fort in New Orleans when I found my first Script “I”
pewter button with nothing in the middle of the circle.

And a amazing thing happened just last week a year ago I found this piece of whatever and I put it in my jar of pieces of whatever. This is what I found

Well last week for some reason mainly boredom I was looking through this particular jar and I picked up that piece and for some strange reason I took some nose grease and rubbed what I thought was the back and this is what I saw it was a truly unbelievable moment when you found out you’ve had something that you didn’t know you’ve had for that long. This Fort has produced a lot of AMAZING things for me but finding something that I thought was nothing that was some thing and saving it for some unknown reason from the Revolutionary War was amazing.