Rare Confederate Script "I" button marked C S

treasurehound · Oct 31, 2011

Rare Confederate Script "I" button marked C S

I just got back from the Relic Rescue 3 day hunt in beautiful Culpeper Virginia and found my best ever Civil War relic. On the first day my hunting partners Mike Post of Woodland Detectors and Ken Whitley and I hunted a known Confederate camp. My very first good find was what I thought was just a Script "I" button but when I got back to the hotel that night and cleaned up a little bit I saw an "S" on the right side of the button and then realized it was the script button with the C S marking. A rare and hard to find button. Shortly after finding the button I then found a Confederate sword scabbard brass band with the ring. Another hard to find relic. I also found a few bullets and buttons and some unkown pieces.

VOL1266-X · Oct 31, 2011

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Congrats Randy!! That's one rare bird for sure. I could tell you were excited from the email you sent from your phone when I asked for a hunt report from you guys. That relic alone was worth the trip. You would have to be very lucky to dig one of those in Tennessee. WTG, Quindy.

creskol · Oct 31, 2011

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That's a real beauty! Congrats on a great find!

umrgolf · Oct 31, 2011

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Awesome find, very rarely see those at all :headbang:

Kent in AL · Oct 31, 2011

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Great finds TH! :headbang:

Kent

joeyfresh · Oct 31, 2011

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holy smokes that's a sweet button!!

ModernMiner · Oct 31, 2011

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Excellent button Randy. Congrats on the rare CW relics.
Hopefully Mike behaved himself. :tongue3:

-MM-

mustang8780 · Oct 31, 2011

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Hey Randy, this is Phil...it was great digging with you bud and that was one SWEET button!

Dman · Oct 31, 2011

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Congrats on the rare button.
Dman

Tnrelicman · Oct 31, 2011

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You don't realize how I hated to miss that hunt with you guys, great CS find buddy you deserved it!!!
Glad to see you posting Dman, get that leg better! !!

James from TN · Oct 31, 2011

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Nice rare button. James

jamesbibb · Oct 31, 2011

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Randy I have to say that I am ecstatic for you. that is a well deserved find. To put up with Mike for 3 days you really earned it :laughing7:

all kidding aside. Thats a fantastic local confederate and Ive never held one in my hand. The green on that one just is Icing on the cake for me. Again a wonderful rare button and Ill vote banner on it casue I like to that much!

Getty · Oct 31, 2011

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Congrats on such a rare button. Its a beaut!

bearbqd · Oct 31, 2011

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Glad you found something decent. I and everyone I talked with got spanked at that place. I even left 4 hours early on Sunday cuz I was tired of getting my butt kicked. For the most part that place has been hammered. Thought it was a rip off myself with the way it was pitched.

duggap · Nov 1, 2011

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Man that is about an RV125. Nice going and wish I was there.

civilman1 · Nov 1, 2011

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Job well done Randy :notworthy:

Congratulation's on one beautiful button !!!! Send that puppy to RoFro :thumbsup:

birdman · Nov 1, 2011

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Awesome save!!

treasurehound · Nov 1, 2011

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VOL1266-X said:
Congrats Randy!! That's one rare bird for sure. I could tell you were excited from the email you sent from your phone when I asked for a hunt report from you guys. That relic alone was worth the trip. You would have to be very lucky to dig one of those in Tennessee. WTG, Quindy.

Yeah Quindy I am still on a pretty good high right now. There were a lot of very good finds on this hunt. I am glad I came home with one.

ModernMiner said:
Excellent button Randy. Congrats on the rare CW relics.
Hopefully Mike behaved himself.
-MM-

Thanks. Yes Mike was very good. He is really mastering that GPX as he dug a lot of buttons.

mustang8780 said:
Hey Randy, this is Phil...it was great digging with you bud and that was one SWEET button!

Hey Phil I really enjoyed hunting with you as well. Thank you for the invite to that site on Thursday. I was really excited to see Ken dig that Large Cent.

Tnrelicman said:
You don't realize how I hated to miss that hunt with you guys, great CS find buddy you deserved it!!!
Glad to see you posting Dman, get that leg better! !!

Thanks Guy. You will definately have to join us on the next one.

treasurehound · Nov 1, 2011

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umrgolf said:
Awesome find, very rarely see those at all

I don't think I have seen one as well. Several script buttons but I think this is the first one marked C S that I have seen.

civilman1 said:
Job well done Randy Congratulation's on one beautiful button !!!! Send that puppy to RoFro

I was thinking about RoFro and wondered what kind of magic he could do. He is very good.

jamesbibb said:
Randy I have to say that I am ecstatic for you. that is a well deserved find. To put up with Mike for 3 days you really earned it all kidding aside. Thats a fantastic local confederate and Ive never held one in my hand. The green on that one just is Icing on the cake for me. Again a wonderful rare button and Ill vote banner on it casue I like to that much!

Hey James. Thank you. I told Mike on the trip up there that I wanted to dig a CS button. I am going to have to tell him some more things that I would like to dig. Thanks for the BANNER vote.

bearbqd said:
Glad you found something decent. I and everyone I talked with got spanked at that place. I even left 4 hours early on Sunday cuz I was tired of getting my butt kicked. For the most part that place has been hammered. Thought it was a rip off myself with the way it was pitched.

Sorry you did not have much luck. I was using the MXT PRO and on that hot soil I was digging every iron target as they would often be bullets or buttons. I also was hunting very slow. I saw guys swinging like they were weed whacking. I did hunt some fields and found nothing as well. We spent most of our time in the one field where the Confederate camp was.

duggap said:
Man that is about an RV125. Nice going and wish I was there.

I am sure there will be more hunts there. There was a lot of fields still in crops that have not been hunted yet. This hunt was not as big as DIV but I did have a good time. And I saw a lot of very nice and rare finds as well. That Kearney Cross was found not too far from where I found my button.
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Woodland Detectors · Nov 1, 2011

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And there she is again. Great to see that button posted for all to see. Like the others said that is one rare extremely shy button to recover. A BANNER button to be exact. Any one who hunts CW relics knows these are high priority on their wish lists. You have my vote Randy. :hello2:

I had a great time meeting all those who attended, and I would do that hunt again. I will post my finds later this week. Take care buddy. Congrats on a fine recovery

BANNER UP!