So I got out friday

[jeff741972]

Wasnt a bad day at all, no coat and sunburn on my neck, feels good!!

Found a few things, gave some stuff to the farmer, was going to post the cell phone pics, but seen they where geotagged, I took them with my phone before i gave the stuff to the farmer, just a few buttons, and a undated large cent, pretty toasty but he was thrilled. What i brought home as you can see, none is silver :P but this from the field of the beaut seated quarter of last season.

A nice military button, think its precivil war, the back is posted above

Second one of these from here

And this one I feel justified the V3 upgrade to the V3i, this registered at 6" deep and came in clear as a bell, because of the sticky clay it took me 10 minutes to find it in the hole, squeezing lumps and pinpointing, I even dropped it back in a few times, needless to say I was impressed, and kinda irritated

Any more info on he military button, and the pin, if the pin is a verterans pin? if so would it be the 1812 war?

Happy hunting!

 

[jeff741972]

What where pins called back then? Ive googled all combination's of cannon pin/ artillery pin/shield pin with cannon, you name it maybe if I knew what a pin was called early I may be able to find something

 

[Iron Patch]

What where pins called back then? Ive googled all combination's of cannon pin/ artillery pin/shield pin with cannon, you name it maybe if I knew what a pin was called early I may be able to find something

That's why I said it was your best find, because it's something very different than what we're used to seeing. If you found it with the button it probably dates to the same era, and I have never seen one before. I think you need to find a few dealers with a nice selection of 1812 buttons for sale and run it by them.

 

[jeff741972]

I cleaned the button and pin up some, the pin nothing much changed, the button, alot of detail came out.
Now

before

The pin, I got some of the bend out of it, didnt want to over do it, I messed with the photo program to bring out the cannon shape better, but the rest of the image suffered.
Now

Guess I could of cleaned the mud off before the original post just too antsy. I am waiting for a phone call about the pin.