Odd Domed 2-piece TIN buttons from the Virginia trenches . . .

[parsonwalker]

Short hunt. I apparently applied too much bug spray and it made me ill. I only hunted a few hours. Back in the same trench where the Maryland Cross and the bullet w/full powder bag came from. Found a gun screw and a bullet (barely) in wood. But these two odd tin buttons were in the same hole on TOP of the trench. They were just round blobs of rust, but I decided to keep them and find out what was inside. Imagine my surprise! Tin . . . but TWO piece, and domed. The four indentations appeared at first to be holes for thread. But they don't go all the way through, and they obviously had shanks. I'm think some kind of flower-button-type design? Posting in WHAT-IS-IT as well. Anybody seen similar two-piece, domed TIN buttons?

 

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[park pirate]

Nice..

 

[VOL1266-X]

The buttons are something you sure don't dig everyday PW!! WTG, Q.

 

[ModernMiner]

That bullet in wood is fantastic PW!
Did the bug spray have DEET in it? I can't use those deet bug sprays anymore.
Congrats,
MM

 

[ronr]

Like that bullet in wood. Looks like underwear buttons.

 

[parsonwalker]

That bullet in wood is fantastic PW!
Did the bug spray have DEET in it? I can't use those deet bug sprays anymore.
Congrats,
MM

Yep. HEAVY concentration of DEET. It's made me feel a little weird before, but this time, after not having used it for what . . . 9 months? I guess I had no resistance built up. My vision got weird, I broke out in a cold sweat, my knees got weak and my hands got trembly. Scared the STUFF out of me. I had to sit down for 30 minutes, and messed me up pretty good.

 

[Aussie]

Love that bullet "barely" in the wood.

 

[Aussie]

Watch out for that bug spray man! Attacks the nervous system, I used some army issue rub on stuff in Australia one time, kept the bugs away but made my lips ears and skin numb for hours!