yard hunts produce civil fuse, button, and artillery fragments

[armyboy20081230]

So I've been digging around. Found s j p shenkl fuse missing the top, a scovill "great seal" button ( someone please help me date because I dug it on a civil war battle ground but I think its more modern), a sabre book, and so many cannonball fragments I stopped digging the signals. Happy hunting

 

[armyboy20081230]

A date on the button would be great. I really want to know what era its from

 

[armyboy20081230]

I hate to keep bumping but I need a date

 

[GatorBoy]

Looks like a world war 1 style eagle

 

[GatorBoy]

Here's a Scoville World War 1

 

[parsonwalker]

That many frags - don't quit - it's got some good stuff on it . . .

 

[armyboy20081230]

Thanks for the date gator and I'm not giving up on that field. Too many good signals

 

[GatorBoy]

Best of luck to you

 

[fyrffytr1]

Can you read the whole backmark? I think your backmark may read Scovills MFG Co. and that backmark was used until 1962. The majority of WWI buttons had a black enamel finish and yours does not look like it had any paint on it so I would think it is post WWI.

 

[armyboy20081230]

Thank you for the info. I'm just city fused because I found it on a civil war battle site

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Armyboy20081230 wrote:
> I'm just confused because I found it [the 20th-Century IS Army button] on a civil war battle site.

The problem is, those old-times Civilian folks just had (almost) no respect at all for the Hallowed Ground of a civil war battlefield. ;-) They would dump (or merely lose) all sorts of junk and trash on the old battlefields, unless the government had already bought the land for a National Battlefield Park (like at Gettysburg).

Also, we have solid documentation that the US Army conducted training maneuvers on old battlefields, many-many times. That is why we civil war relics diggers have found a LOT of 20th-Century army equipment (including buttons) at the old battlefields.