Hello All,
It's been a great summer out hunting in the hundred degree heat. One day the feels like temps were in the upper 110s. Yeah, crazy--but soooo worth it! Rather than fight the uploader on Tnet to try and post in my usual "magazine format" I'm just going to post links to my latest two videos, and dump all my photos below so that people won't complain that the video links are the only thing there. After 15 years on this forum and tens of thousands of posts, I don't know how long I'll continue to make posts of my finds here. So I encourage you all to follow my Instagram at BuckleboyLA and hit subscribe to my YouTube if you'd like to continue to see my recent recoveries. Of course I'll still drop in to comment and ID items, but this format isn't very conducive to showing finds compared to other platforms.
That said, on with the story...
When I dug my first GW Inaugural button in Louisiana in 2017 I thought that feat could never, ever be repeated. Literally a one-off, Find of a Lifetime. Well, what's crazy is that in a span of a few weeks I managed to find two more GW's!! The first of those is the same type as the one I dug back in 2017, but recovered in a different field miles away (which I posted here on my last finds post). It's a GWI 17-B "Long Live the President" button with a wreath. The second GW from this summer was a plain-faced flat button but bore the backmark "WASHINGTON" with the federal eagle, classified as a GWI 27-A. These buttons are thought to have been made during Washington's last year of life in 1799 as a tribute button. FYI there are Andrew Jackson buttons which also have no design on the front, and "JACKSON" or "JACKSON VICTORY" on the reverse, so clean your flat buttons carefully!
Mid-summer I discovered a new site in behind a 1930s-40s trash pit that I'd previously avoided. The site was Civil War era, and we nicknamed it the "nickel field" since we dug a total of 9 shield nickels there in a very small area. I finished up this field in the first video, and realized that I had dug the first GW since it had been in a backlog of finds left to clean (make hay while the sun (oppressive heat??!) is shining, right?). At any rate, then we moved on to an old field of ours which we'd dug tons of jaw dropping relics from, as it was fresh plowed. I recovered the second GW there, along with lots of other amazing finds dug. Finds shown: Multiple Civil War buttons, a silver ring from the 1850s, war nickel and marble surface finds, nickel trifecta, silver religious medallion, brass 10-point spur rowel, and of course the newest GW button. Enjoy.
Next to last hunt on Nickel Field:
Last hunt on Nickel Field and finding my THIRD GW:
First full hunt on the newly plowed field:
Photos below.
HH,
Buck
It's been a great summer out hunting in the hundred degree heat. One day the feels like temps were in the upper 110s. Yeah, crazy--but soooo worth it! Rather than fight the uploader on Tnet to try and post in my usual "magazine format" I'm just going to post links to my latest two videos, and dump all my photos below so that people won't complain that the video links are the only thing there. After 15 years on this forum and tens of thousands of posts, I don't know how long I'll continue to make posts of my finds here. So I encourage you all to follow my Instagram at BuckleboyLA and hit subscribe to my YouTube if you'd like to continue to see my recent recoveries. Of course I'll still drop in to comment and ID items, but this format isn't very conducive to showing finds compared to other platforms.
That said, on with the story...
When I dug my first GW Inaugural button in Louisiana in 2017 I thought that feat could never, ever be repeated. Literally a one-off, Find of a Lifetime. Well, what's crazy is that in a span of a few weeks I managed to find two more GW's!! The first of those is the same type as the one I dug back in 2017, but recovered in a different field miles away (which I posted here on my last finds post). It's a GWI 17-B "Long Live the President" button with a wreath. The second GW from this summer was a plain-faced flat button but bore the backmark "WASHINGTON" with the federal eagle, classified as a GWI 27-A. These buttons are thought to have been made during Washington's last year of life in 1799 as a tribute button. FYI there are Andrew Jackson buttons which also have no design on the front, and "JACKSON" or "JACKSON VICTORY" on the reverse, so clean your flat buttons carefully!
Mid-summer I discovered a new site in behind a 1930s-40s trash pit that I'd previously avoided. The site was Civil War era, and we nicknamed it the "nickel field" since we dug a total of 9 shield nickels there in a very small area. I finished up this field in the first video, and realized that I had dug the first GW since it had been in a backlog of finds left to clean (make hay while the sun (oppressive heat??!) is shining, right?). At any rate, then we moved on to an old field of ours which we'd dug tons of jaw dropping relics from, as it was fresh plowed. I recovered the second GW there, along with lots of other amazing finds dug. Finds shown: Multiple Civil War buttons, a silver ring from the 1850s, war nickel and marble surface finds, nickel trifecta, silver religious medallion, brass 10-point spur rowel, and of course the newest GW button. Enjoy.
Next to last hunt on Nickel Field:
Last hunt on Nickel Field and finding my THIRD GW:
First full hunt on the newly plowed field:
Photos below.
HH,
Buck
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