Rare North Carolina button, confederate?

crabstang44 · Mar 10, 2016

Has been mostly identified, but don't know who used it. If anybody has any new info please let me know thanks, was found in new Bern nc

crabstang44 · Mar 15, 2016

not much story really, ive been hunting my city of new bern hard the last couple of months and found over 80 silver coins and many civil war buttons, i was running out of old houses to ask so i went to a 1930s house which had thick tall grass and never thought i would find anything but i found this button and figured it wasnt too old or very special, but william at civilwarbuttons.com helped and you all helped me. i also went back to that spot and pounded it, but no more buttons, i love this button not just because of its value but because it was probably a confederate who was or fought with my ancestors

SCdigger · Mar 16, 2016

crabstang44 said:
I'm scared to do any cleaning

I know I'm late to the party...but WOW! Congrats! I'm with you...I'd leave it just the way it is...not that it wouldn't clean it up, but that once you do, there's no going back...kind of like refinishing a valuable piece of furniture...I'd at least some folks with more cleaning experience take a look at it before touching it.

GT

SCdigger · Mar 16, 2016

crabstang44 said:
The results, cleaned with naval jelly

OK...I'm late again. But it looks great.

G

crabstang44 · Mar 16, 2016

SCdigger said:
OK...I'm late again. But it looks great.

G

hey, ive been watching you on youtube, great videos

CheathamHill · Mar 16, 2016

I'm adding another Another fruitless banner nod ..this button is incredible. Congratulations, regardless if you get some internet 'banner' icon to hang by your name or not...that is the most remarkable find I've seen in a LONG time

crabstang44 · Mar 16, 2016

CheathamHill said:
I'm adding another Another fruitless banner nod ..this button is incredible. Congratulations, regardless if you get some internet 'banner' icon to hang by your name or not...that is the most remarkable find I've seen in a LONG time

i appreciate it, its only 1 of about 5 known to exist

scruggs · Mar 16, 2016

Great find you made! I have found a few CW buttons, mainly when I lived in East Tennessee. None were as nice as you found!!

Davers · Mar 16, 2016

WOW X 10.000

crabstang44 said:
not much story really, ive been hunting my city of new bern hard the last couple of months and found over 80 silver coins and many civil war buttons, i was running out of old houses to ask so i went to a 1930s house which had thick tall grass and never thought i would find anything but i found this button and figured it wasnt too old or very special, but william at civilwarbuttons.com helped and you all helped me. i also went back to that spot and pounded it, but no more buttons, i love this button not just because of its value but because it was probably a confederate who was or fought with my ancestors

What an AWESOME Find & you got larger Stones than me by attempting to clean it.
'Looks good to me tho' :icon_thumleft:

You are the second Person I ever said this to , (The first was yesterday)....
'Man, You were born to dig'...

Key words.. "Hunting my city of New Bern hard the last couple months"
"found over 80 Silver Coins and "Many" Civil War Buttons"

Congratulations on a Beautiful & Spectacular Find.. :thumbsup:

crabstang44 · Mar 16, 2016

Davers said:
What an AWESOME Find & you got larger Stones than me by attempting to clean it.
'Looks good to me tho'

You are the second Person I ever said this to , (The first was yesterday)....
'Man, You were born to dig'...

Key words.. "Hunting my city of New Bern hard the last couple months"
"found over 80 Silver Coins and "Many" Civil War Buttons"

Congratulations on a Beautiful & Spectacular Find..

thank you sir, it is probably just beginners luck, had a good teacher too, shout out to daniel of kinston, nc
oh and most the silvers were mercurys

HunterMF · Mar 16, 2016

Don't know much about buttons, but just from reading this I can tell that you found a great one! Great find!

crabstang44 · Mar 19, 2016

HunterMF said:
Don't know much about buttons, but just from reading this I can tell that you found a great one! Great find!

thank you

oxbowbarefoot · Mar 21, 2016

Iron Patch said:
What a great find! And not sure what the banner people are waiting for.

Just for the record, anyone who offers to buy it will say not to clean it.... so they can.

This sounds familiar :icon_scratch:

where have I heard it before :laughing7:

oxbowbarefoot · Mar 21, 2016

Great find, and well done with the cleaning.

Iron Patch · Mar 22, 2016

oxbowbarefoot said:
This sounds familiar where have I heard it before

Yes, but that same person gave you a higher number in the beginning that maybe you should have held out and stuck with. :laughing7:

BuckleBoy · Mar 24, 2016

Congrats on the great find! Not sure why it's not on the banner.

Would love it if you'd be willing to post a before/after photo on my thread in the cleaning and preservation section called "how to clean buttons." It's been a popular thread over the years and I've written several articles on button cleaning and preservation.

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/cleaning-preservation/89045-how-clean-buttons.html

crabstang44 · Mar 28, 2016

BuckleBoy said:
Congrats on the great find! Not sure why it's not on the banner.

Would love it if you'd be willing to post a before/after photo on my thread in the cleaning and preservation section called "how to clean buttons." It's been a popular thread over the years and I've written several articles on button cleaning and preservation.

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/cleaning-preservation/89045-how-clean-buttons.html

its because im a new member i guess, i did post a picture after cleaning it and the before is on the first page of this post

crabstang44 · Mar 29, 2016

BuckleBoy said:
Congrats on the great find! Not sure why it's not on the banner.

Would love it if you'd be willing to post a before/after photo on my thread in the cleaning and preservation section called "how to clean buttons." It's been a popular thread over the years and I've written several articles on button cleaning and preservation.

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/cleaning-preservation/89045-how-clean-buttons.html

the naval jelly worked well, had to dip it about 10 times

crabstang44 · Apr 11, 2016

hello i wanted thank everybody for the info and comments and to let you know i sold the button for a pretty penny, actually many hundreds of thousands of pennys, you can do the math. to someone who really appreciates it.

DownNDirty · Apr 11, 2016

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DownNDirty · Apr 11, 2016

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