royal canadian volunteers coat button, 1794,95? cant find a single pic!

[mattysee]

waist high in a creek with the at gold today, grabbed this solid 70 in the sand, at a 1790s home in Selkirk, ny. found history of the unit (1rst royal Canadian volunteers reg) 750 men, out of quebec I think...... it reads under the number one (try us) anyone have any pics of this button or info? thanx

 

[ironhorse]

Now there's a button everyone can appreciate!

Very nice find, I hope the history is as nice!

 

[vpnavy]

Nice find mattysee.

 

[Bramblefind]

Wow that is nice!! Congratulations!

I found another posted on a Canadian metal detecting site. I'm not a member there so I have to access it using the google cache. Here is a screen shot -

Official Canadian Metal Detecting ? View topic - Big Lead, Big Silver and Lil' Olde Button

 

[JimDon]

Very nice find.

 

[deb55]

Hey I'm in Castleton just over e river. Cool find.

 

[GioTheGreek]

Fantastic button.

 

[Erving]

Awesome button!!! Congrats!

 

[mattysee]

thanx for the pic, glad to see someone else got one

 

[CASPER-2]