Not 1, not 2, not 3 but 4, YES 4 NC Staff Officer Buttons!

[nc-joe]

I am in total awe I thought I was having a great day helping a new detectorist learn the ins and outs of his new XLT and going over the how and why the adjustments do what they do, and we hit an older house after the crash course at the local community college.

I was amazed to find a nice assortment of coins, 1897 IH cent, 1900 IH cent, 1914 wheat cent, 1919 wheat cent, 1895 V nickel and a 1906-O barber dime. I was suprised to find a musket ball and a few odds and ends but absolutely blown away when I started pulling civil war buttons.

Best I can tell (thanks for helping with the ID Modern Miner) they are listed as Albert's NC 4 State Seal Staff Officer Buttons. I am really at a loss for words.... and that doesn't happen much!

Thanks for looking!

Sorry for the rough photos, but I am not going to attempt to clean the buttons. I am going to leave that to someone that knows what they are doing. There appears to be plenty of guild left on them...

 

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[allen]

way to go on all of those awesome finds !!!!!!!!!!

 

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[ringfinder]

Great, Great finds, thanks for the post and pictures. Did the fellow using the XLT find anything?

HH,.Ringfinder

 

[River Rat]

WTG, Joe Awesome finds, congrats on those 4 buttons

RR

 

[nc-joe]

Bummer, post war buttons I took the liberty to clean the damaged button in an ultra sonic jewelry cleaner to see how much gilt would be left on these buttons. Pretty impressive cleaning job from that little machine!

 

[nc-joe]

cleaned a second one....
I'll clean the other 2 tomorrow....

 

[done dug it all up]

 

[ModernMiner]

Joe,
Sorry about the post war deal, but those NC seal buttons came out GREAT!!! I have only found one crumbling NC state seal button so far, and would love to find one like yours. Great addition to the collection. Congrats. And let's not forget about the coins you found too.
-Doug-

 

[Ifoundit69]

Looks like you had a good day , nice finds id be back hittin that place hard ..

 

[camb1]

Great Finds. Congtrats.

 

[fwf1066]

You must be livin' right.

 

[ModernMiner]

Way to go Joe!!!

I wouldn't be afraid to use a SOFT tooth brush with some dishwashing liquid on them while holding the button under running water.
They are obviously yours to do with what you want, you can't go wrong by under-cleaning them.

If there were 4 there, then there are probably the rest of the coat, maybe at least 4 more!!!!

I would not recommend using a toothbrush on these unless you want to risk losing any gilt which may be left...

Yes. Do it the slow way and get a beautiful, glittering result. Naval jelly or aluminum jelly is best. There was a good thread I seen around here somewhere about buttons. Can't find it though...


done dugit

Here's that post we were looking for:

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