Sewing Basket Spill! 5 old buttons in one hole-can you tell me more about them?

[Bramblefind]

I just found these a couple hours ago. I was in my parents' yard - I have searched there many, many times before. I got a mixed, bouncing signal. I was nearly going to call it a day and hadn't found much of anything so I decided to dig it. I think I was down about 6 inches when the first two came out stuck together by the dirt.

I was thrilled!

Decided to give the hole a quick scan before I filled it in and had another good signal scooped and saw another. Scanned got another signal and scooped another, scanned the hole and didn't get any more signals but then scanned the dirt at the side of the hole and what do you know that was one more!

Can you give me any info on them? The bigger ones are about 20 mm diameter and the smaller ones about 17 mm.

One is shiny without a backmark - is this tombac? Two have backmarks of "Rich Gilt" "Standard" and pictures of maybe clovers, flowers and leaves..thistle maybe(?), one of the small ones has a backmark of "Imperial Standard". I don't think the other has a backmark.

Thanks!!

 

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[gwdigger]

I was wondering where I dropped those. Those are the ones I found. Guess they fell out of my pocket.

Nice little treasure!

 

[umrgolf]

yes, the shiny one is a tombac.. all the buttons seem to be late 1700's-early 1800's.. I've found quite a few flat buttons like that but never all together in one hole. Nice recovery

 

[birdman]

very cool!

 

[Swingit]

Now Thats Cool
HH!!

 

[vayank54]

yes, the shiny one is a tombac.. all the buttons seem to be late 1700's-early 1800's.. I've found quite a few flat buttons like that but never all together in one hole. Nice recovery

Right.
A cool find. WTG

 

[ivan salis]

flat buttons say 1780 -1820 rough era guessimate -- one tombac -- veery cool

flower looks like a rose to me. 2 seem alike

extra rich gilt
standard
(rose)

 

[Bramblefind]

Thanks everyone!

I have found very few buttons so this is exciting. Never found a tombac before and I am so happy I have now. It is really pretty.

That late 18th C - early 19C time period keeps coming up in the artifacts I find at this site. Fantastic!

 

[Sniffy]

A button spill! Now thats sweet...

 

[Bramblefind]

flat buttons say 1780 -1820 rough era guessimate -- one tombac -- veery cool

flower looks like a rose to me. 2 seem alike

extra rich gilt
standard
(rose)

It just occured to me - are these marks symbols?

Clover is a Shamrock - for Ireland

Rose - for England

Thistle - for Scotland

Seems obvious now

 

[ivan salis]

the usa prior to 1812--- used to import most of our buttons from england --lots of those "flat buttons" are from england -- the "tudor rose" from the royal british blood line

 

[teleman 2525]

nice button spill

 

[mrsjuju]

Very nice!

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Re: Sewing Basket Spill! 5 old buttons in one hole-can you tell me more about t

Nice civilian buttons!