Show me your best acquisitions of 2012 - found or purchased, please

[smokeythecat]

I'll go first. Confederate 2 pieces buckle from Virginia, purchased

 

[Little River Hunter]

Seminole pottery from Oklahoma, ca. 1840. Purchased at a pawn shop.

 

[smokeythecat]

That pottery is awesome. I never found more than pieces. I did get 3 pots over the years into my collection, they all came out of Arkansas. We never get that here in my part of the east coast, it's all busted up.

 

[Indian Steve]

Very nice pots! also like the beads in your avatar. Are they facceted Russians?

 

[Little River Hunter]

Thanks. The smaller pot is a reproduction and the nutting stones are early 19th c. I have three strands of those beads, one strand is elongated. From what I understand, the beads aren't actually Russian, but are Bohemian-made in origin and pre-date the Russian trade.

 

[Findersweepers]

dug two months ago location: ghost town in SE Nebraska.


the coat button dug at my local fairgrounds active since the early 1900's. the collar pin dug at inactice baseball field (very old)

 

[Gunrunner61]

These two Alabama Volunteer Corp Buttons dug within twenty feet of each other in Whitfield County, Georgia........................HH