A few early military buttons Ive dug.

[vayank54]

A few early military buttons I've dug.

With digging being a bit slow I thought some of you might like to see a few of the better earlier buttons I've dug. All are one piece. In the first picture are coat size Navy button around 1810, 1810-12 Militia button and a Rev. war Pewter entwined USA
In the second picture are cuffs The first is listed in Albert's as unidentified, 1808 to 1830 pewter US, and 1811-13 1st Regt of Artillerists

 

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[birdman]

Re: A few early military buttons I've dug.

Love em!

 

[brnn53]

Re: A few early military buttons I've dug.

Nice buttons!

 

[Iron Patch]

Re: A few early military buttons I've dug.

Some day I hope to see a USA show up here but would be a very rare find. I do know of one though! Pretty cool, was found with a bunch of Loyalist and British buttons.

 

[vayank54]

Re: A few early military buttons I've dug.

Those USA's are hard to find anywhere. I dug the one in the pic in '71 or 72. They were building a college and we found a colonial period house site that was loaded. We had been in there most of the day and I dug the USA when we were leaving. We went back the next day and didn't even get out of the car when a security guard told us we couldn't dig. There was still a lot of stuff left at that site but it's under asphalt and concrete now. I hope you get one IP

 

[Iron Patch]

Re: A few early military buttons I've dug.

Those USA's are hard to find anywhere. I dug the one in the pic in '71 or 72. They were building a college and we found a colonial period house site that was loaded. We had been in there most of the day and I dug the USA when we were leaving. We went back the next day and didn't even get out of the car when a security guard told us we couldn't dig. There was still a lot of stuff left at that site but it's under asphalt and concrete now. I hope you get one IP

Sure not holding my breath. My buddy told me on the phone and i had to ask 2 or 3 times if I was hearing him correctly. Sure would love to know the history of an enemy button that made it all the way here.

 

[vayank54]

Re: A few early military buttons I've dug.

It would be cool to know the history on some of the stuff we dig. It's possible that someone took the button from a prisoner or corpse and kept it as a souvenir. I dug several confederate buttons( VA, GA,& LA one of each) in a small spot in a union camp and they had all been burned. Another fellow dug a hut site and got a bunch of different state seal buttons, one of each. I think in both of these cases the soldiers had be collecting the buttons for some reason and either lost them or threw them away.

 

[Iron Patch]

Re: A few early military buttons I've dug.

It would be cool to know the history on some of the stuff we dig. It's possible that someone took the button from a prisoner or corpse and kept it as a souvenir. I dug several confederate buttons( VA, GA,& LA one of each) in a small spot in a union camp and they had all been burned. Another fellow dug a hut site and got a bunch of different state seal buttons, one of each. I think in both of these cases the soldiers had be collecting the buttons for some reason and either lost them or threw them away.

Just because there was only one button doesn't mean the entire coat didn't come back. We dig single military finds much more than doubles at our sites. I know one day we're going to find a entire coat worth of good buttons. Now that will be a great day!

 

[vayank54]

Re: A few early military buttons I've dug.

I understand, but the 3 burnt CS buttons I found were in one small spot in a big union camp and there were no CS troops camped there and the buttons that came from the pit were one of each and from states that didn't have units camped there. That's why we figured they were saved as souvenirs. It's the same with us digging single more that multiples of buttons. I have been fortunate to dig several whole coats of buttons. I guess the best was a coat of confederate script I's that were in a row and the faces were sticking out of the ground. I kicked the leaves back and there they were.