Pre-Freeze Hunt - Nice Navy Button!

[romeo-1]

I got out this morning to a favourite site and stuck to the edge of the field. During summer the grass is too long to detect the edge but it's flat now. Found a few scraps and just as it started to rain I found the navy button! I think there will be some gilt left on the front as the back is still quite golden. If this is my last land hunt for the season I will be happy...always glad to add a button to the military collection!

 

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[Inspector]

Very cool button, WTG on the save

 

[Zodiacdiverdave]

Nice recovery, good to see you are braving the elements. It its looking good for a warming trend by late next week so don't pack up the tector yet buddy.
ZDD

 

[romeo-1]

Nice recovery, good to see you are braving the elements. It its looking good for a warming trend by late next week so don't pack up the tector yet buddy.
ZDD

Nope, not packing it in yet! The top two inches were frozen but still easy digging...actually my favourite conditions for detecting!

 

[Ahab8]

Great result Romeo! That's a hell of a hunt. You spoke of the tall grass at the site. I have so many areas that were too overgrown this summer to really hunt. So early spring I'm going to take a week or two off and hit some of these areas. It kills you to know there's prob great stuff hiding under all the thick stuff. Luckily Mother Nature will do our work if were patient enough. Hope you get a couple more hunts in buddy

 

[romeo-1]

Great result Romeo! That's a hell of a hunt. You spoke of the tall grass at the site. I have so many areas that were too overgrown this summer to really hunt. So early spring I'm going to take a week or two off and hit some of these areas. It kills you to know there's prob great stuff hiding under all the thick stuff. Luckily Mother Nature will do our work if were patient enough. Hope you get a couple more hunts in buddy

Thanks! I'm pretty sure there's another land hunt in store this year but even after the inevitable freeze I'll be able to hunt the beaches...in this area there are just as many finds on the beach as on dry land!

 

[Ahab8]

Thanks! I'm pretty sure there's another land hunt in store this year but even after the inevitable freeze I'll be able to hunt the beaches...in this area there are just as many finds on the beach as on dry land!

Yeah AQUA killed it on the beach last year. Anybody heard from him? I've emailed him and not heard anything back. Hoping he's ok. Been a long time since he's posted

 

[romeo-1]

As good as it will get I think!

 

[Old Dude]

Wow. Never would have known that had any gilt on it. Very nice looking old button.

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[Davers]

Wow that Old button turned out nice , & a great back side as well. LOL

Davers

 

[romeo-1]

Identified as a 1774-1787 Royal Navy Captain and Commander's Button...Iron Patch pointed me in the right direction and I found this site...little more than halfway down.

George Washington Inaugural Buttons ? * 1748 ? 1787 *The American Continental NavyThe Royal Navy & The British MarinesFrench Navy & Marine Buttons

 

[Iron Patch]

Identified as a 1774-1787 Royal Navy Captain and Commander's Button...Iron Patch pointed me in the right direction and I found this site...little more than halfway down.

George Washington Inaugural Buttons ? * 1748 ? 1787 *The American Continental NavyThe Royal Navy & The British MarinesFrench Navy & Marine Buttons

He's dating it from the book, so is right.... and looking again without having any context we probably should be considering it more as just a Naval officer button than a Captain, because it was adopted and used widely for other ranks in 1787. So.... you'd really have to dig a bone back to say it was likely worn by a Captain.... or if the site had an early extremely tight time frame that you were very sure of, and that's near impossible, if not impossible, for the type of digging we do.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Congrats on getting out there and digging. Nice finds!

That looks so cool the gold gilt still in the pattern with the green patina back ground.

Doesn't AQUA do commercial fishing? If he does that maybe where he is.

 

[CRUSADER]

Yeap nice complete early example, I don't see too many myself & it would be a good find for a day out.

 

[pepperj]

Nice one to add to the collection, it's always nice that the shank is intact on a button. Hope you get out once again for a field hunt as it's pretty tough digging here right now, frozen down a foot already in gravel on the north side.

 

[Hunthicks]

That's a nice way to finish it off if it ends up that way, but if we get those temps next week I'm sure you'll be able to be digging down there!

 

[ironhorse]

Nice way to coast into home this fall



i remember so well seeing them found an then finding one myself; I think I only have a couple from that era.
It seemed they were oh so rare then, but I've been seeing more and more now


nice find

 

[The Patriot]

Well that hunt turned out for you…nothing wrong with adding another button to the collection of growing buttons…is surprising at times how much gilt is actually left on some of those buttons…Great recovery….

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Love those early navy buttons. That gilted anchor and rope overlaid on that nice green patina makes for a great presentation. WTG!!