pa-dirt_nc-sand
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I was not able to get out on any major hunts this week with the constant heavy rain and family obligations, but I was able to do a couple short hunts at a nearby old / colonial era site that I have been hitting. Easy signals and shotgun shells targets have dried up, now exploring the iffy signals in the iron patches.
This button was a scratchy deep one way signal that I would never dig except it was right in the middle of the main hot area in the woods.
Interesting back mark maker... I think they were making buttons like this in the 1830s and 1840’s.
Here is the handful of buttons.
A couple interesting tidbits on these buttons:
-First tombac button I have found that came out nice and clean and almost black/gun metal sheen. Usually these are silvery.
-I have only found a couple 4 hole buttons, this one is well marked and easy to see what it was used for.
-The small 2 piece button with fancy has an iron back which I rarely find.
Here are the rest of the finds. The rivet has a small star design and not sure what the pivoting screw mechanism was for, probably drawer pull hardware. (Found the V at a nearby site with some more modern items, only coin this week.)
Good luck out there!
This button was a scratchy deep one way signal that I would never dig except it was right in the middle of the main hot area in the woods.
Interesting back mark maker... I think they were making buttons like this in the 1830s and 1840’s.
Here is the handful of buttons.
A couple interesting tidbits on these buttons:
-First tombac button I have found that came out nice and clean and almost black/gun metal sheen. Usually these are silvery.
-I have only found a couple 4 hole buttons, this one is well marked and easy to see what it was used for.
-The small 2 piece button with fancy has an iron back which I rarely find.
Here are the rest of the finds. The rivet has a small star design and not sure what the pivoting screw mechanism was for, probably drawer pull hardware. (Found the V at a nearby site with some more modern items, only coin this week.)
Good luck out there!
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