Union Buttons & Lead at the Camp - and a strange fibrous "button" . . .

[parsonwalker]

Only had about 3 hours today between episodes of the deluge currently dampening Virginia. But I'm very happy with 3 buttons and 3 bullets in 3 hours. This camp is so strange in that you are as likely to find buttons as bullets. So I thought I had FOUR buttons. Got back to the house and cleaned on the last one VERY carefully. Looked like just a button face, but it had a rough surface. Like dimpled. As I cleaned more aggressively It began to come apart. It seemed almost fibrous. I wondered if I had a rare rubber button. Then it came to me. I spent 10 minutes cleaning an acorn cap.

 

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[bearbqd]

Lol on the acorn cap! Great finds otherwise.

 

[VOL1266-X]

That's weird PW. Some good end of year finds. HNY, Q.

 

[qaela4]

It's tough to find a good solid acorn cap button these days, the dirt really does a job on them.... Otherwise, great hunt.

 

[relic nut]

Nice hunt. Acorn buttons are very rare. If you find one intact it will make banner for sure.

HH, Relic Nut

 

[Subterranean]

parsonwalker, We appreciate you washing our food for us. Sincerely, Rocky

 

[SirWalterRaleigh]

Great finds, especially the buttons. I could dig acorn buttons all day

 

[Darby]

Great bunch of bullets and eagle buttons! Lol on the acorn button! Good laugh! Congrats

 

[parsonwalker]

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parsonwalker, We appreciate you washing our food for us. Sincerely, Rocky

OK, so after that New Hampshire yankee made a smart aleck comment, I was going to reply "Typical Yankee Smart Aleck." But then a Missouri westerner disappoints me with a similar snide remark . . . then Horror of horrors . . . not one, but THREE southerners jump on the "make fun of the confused preacher" bandwagon!! Everything I thought I knew about the world is wrong.

 

[relic nut]

OK, so after that New Hampshire yankee made a smart aleck comment, I was going to reply "Typical Yankee Smart Aleck." But then a Missouri westerner disappoints me with a similar snide remark . . . then Horror of horrors . . . not one, but THREE southerners jump on the "make fun of the confused preacher" bandwagon!! Everything I thought I knew about the world is wrong.

Easy...... Don't go "nutts" you might lose your top. Lol

HH, Relic Nut

 

[The Rebel]

Sweet CW finds. What did the Acorn ring up as, LOL. From a Transplanted Southerner behind enemy lines.

 

[bill from lachine]

Nice mix of old finds.

Regards + HH

Bill

 

[HomeGuardDan]

ha...yea they will fool ya. I went into a creek at a historic battlefield in the middle of winter once because I saw what I knew was a 23mm button back laying at the bottom...fibrous for sure ha ha

 

[Trezurehunter]

Very nice hunt. Those are some great looking buttons.

 

[trapperart]

Nice bunch of finds congrats

 

[CoilyGirl]

Good to know Im not the only goober who has mistaken an acorn cap for a button. Still a nice little hunt you had.

 

[sutphin]

NICE CW FINDS PARSON ...

 

[jewelerguy]

cool relics. I've got four live oak trees in my yard. this year, they have produced more acorns than ever before. so far I have put at least 300 lbs of them in the trash and probably have 600 lbs or more to go. I hate them, and I'm sure the trash guys hate me.