Starting to get back in the Colonial groove

[Iron Patch]

Picking bits and pieces off a few sites today and did get a bendy but decent officer button. Circa. 1790s.

This outta shut up the PA Colonial Bros for at least a little while. (Still not Fall yet, so more to come)

 

[Iron Patch]

Iron patch, nice finds and great day when you can still fill your pocket with federal antiquities! I don't know if this is too dangerous to try, or even if you'd want to try it, but there is supposedly a way to sometimes restore a bent copper object. Probably if you do try it you'd want to do it on some practice piece of junk. It is a way to anneal through the use of boiling water which a conservator once told me about. You immerse the object in boiling water for a long period of time, an hour or so, and that supposedly anneals enough that the object can be very gradually bent back into shape. You do it in small stages though and never try to do it in one shot. I've never tried it; maybe I will on the first rainy day just to see if it works.

There is several good people I could send this to who probably could help it a little, but I have no plans to. This fits in my local collection very nicely and has taken me near 10 years to find the brass version (3 pewter), so even if the chances were very low it would snap, they're still higher than what I would be willing to risk. The button has already found it's place in my case and is very readable even with the bend... so I'm good!

Pretty doesn't change history.

 

[timekiller]

I see you have some places to pull out of the hat this winter to there Patch,Way to go!
Timekiller!

 

[johnnyi]

" Pretty doesn't change history."

right on there!

 

[Don in SJ]

Gee, I had my blow torch and 5lb sledge ready to go, oh well!

One pretty button there IP, I know that brought a nice smile to you mug! Glad you have some places opening up, hope the Danny doesn't take a day of hunting away from you this weekend..........

I got out this morning, thought the weatherman said cooler today, so I went, well, can't say I felt any cooler, tough swingin with detector in one hand and water bottle in the other. No coins, but got 3 more buttons from my Tallyo site I found last winter, about 30+ buttons from there so far and quite a few were pewter, but nothing special on any of them.

Don

 

[Iron Patch]

Gee, I had my blow torch and 5lb sledge ready to go, oh well!

One pretty button there IP, I know that brought a nice smile to you mug! Glad you have some places opening up, hope the Danny doesn't take a day of hunting away from you this weekend..........

I got out this morning, thought the weatherman said cooler today, so I went, well, can't say I felt any cooler, tough swingin with detector in one hand and water bottle in the other. No coins, but got 3 more buttons from my Tallyo site I found last winter, about 30+ buttons from there so far and quite a few were pewter, but nothing special on any of them.

Don

What's strange is I was complaining not even 24 hours before how I just couldn't seem to get over any 1812 period officer buttons. I dug this one at a new field and was my first signal for the day! It did charge me up a little but mostly because I thought we found a good new site. The button is one of three that were made the same way and when I dug it I just assumed it was the one I already had, and with the bend it was just a lacking double. About 30 minutes after finding it I cleaned some dirt off to see it was one I didn't have so that was cool. The site had lots of iron around but very little few targets, too bad.

Speaking of cool the temps. it sure has changed here. We just finished our three warmest weeks of the Summer and the change is so great today it is feeling like Fall. Not a bad thing if you ask me.

Maybe I'll just throw it on the railroad tracks.

 

[Evan/tn]

nice bunch of finds amazing gilt left on that button

 

[collector01]

Great bunch of relics looks like your in the groove for sure. Its awesome how good the button cleaned up, I can never find a military button. Keep up the great work, cant wait to see your next hand full of colonial relics.

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Nice! Yes, fall is comming. I cannot wait

 

[Kirk PA]

Great bunch of relics looks like your in the groove for sure. Its awesome how good the button cleaned up, I can never find a military button. Keep up the great work, cant wait to see your next hand full of colonial relics.

His secret is lemon juice. Aluminum jelly does the same.

Kirk

 

[IronSpike]

As always excellent finds Iron Patch

IMO that's a Banner Button

Lemon juice or jelly the button and condition has to be there. It's there even with the bend and you did an outstanding job cleaning it. I'm sure now it's only enhancing your button display case.