🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Revolutionary War Era Button ID

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Relic Hunting
Found this lead button along with a KGIII and shoe buckle frame on a homesite near Valley Forge, PA. The composition is 100% cast lead, feels like a musket ball in hand. Anyone recognize the design?
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Well, due to the construction, it was made in America. Both the Loyalist forces and some American cavalry used a button with a similar device of a man riding a horse on it. No one has been able to pin them down 100%. It's a great find, and I'd guess American cavalry/dragoons.
Well, due to the construction, it was made in America. Both the Loyalist forces and some American cavalry used a button with a similar device of a man riding a horse on it. No one has been able to pin them down 100%. It's a great find, and I'd guess American cavalry/dragoons.
 

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Very historic find for sure. :thumbsup:
Great assessment by smokey as well on your cuff-button find.
Dave
 

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