Republique Francaise- 1790s French Marine Artillery Cuff button!

shanegalang

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Hello all. Did a solo hunt yesterday. My fellow bandits are swamped with work obligations at the moment. I've been poking around the old colonial tavern site and managed to pull this out. A 1790s era French Marine Artillery Cuff button! Its my understanding that French Marine buttons are rather rare and this particular one is even more so because there weren't a whole lot of French Marine Artillery guys walking around back then. Also unearthed [FONT=&quot]a knee buckle, watch winder and a key hole cover. Im including a pic of what the button looked like, before 200 plus years in a sugarcane field tumbler.[/FONT]
 

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Wow that's a killer early but in my friend
 

BIG TIME congrats on that one buddy! I WISH I'd been there to see that come out of the ground. Anytime something comes up down here that's French Colonial--it's an AMAZING day!!

-Buck
 

Oh yeah Shang!! Beauty button and one for a display favorites section. That cleaned up great - congrats!
 

Impressive finds and all the others you have listed That sounds like a lot of fun Thanks for sharing those great finds !!!!!!
 

Very nice button recovery! :occasion14:
 

Awesome button, that's the first I've seen! I don't get on here as much as I used to but glad to see you're still tearing it up!
 

Dat ding booklboy needto quit dat wurkin n get diggun!
Cool Button Shane!
 

Nice! Great button!
 

These type of buttons is what motivates me.
Thanks for posting
 

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