Lets see some eagle buttons.

[Brian C.]

Here are a couple of neat buttons I have found over the years. Brian C.

 

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[FoxHound0985]

Here's some of my better ones... Happy Hunting!

 

[dave in iowa]

Dont find many but here are my 4 best ones. the last one i found with the badge i found about 3 feet apart.

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Eagles Did someone say eagles

Most certainly this one is my best, circa 1812...



But I have many other CW era ones. Here are my best...

Some are eagle backmarks, which is always an added bonus, such as on these British made buttons made for sale in the young USA.

 

[allen]

i need to dig mine out and post them here.

 

[Steve in PA]

Here are two I dug this spring that I really like, plus a few others from past years.

 

[wstgo]

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[lost crow]

I wanna play. Here's some of mine.

 

[Steve in PA]

I wanna play. Here's some of mine.

Those Dragoon buttons look early. Are they one piece buttons, and if so were they found in Texas or Oklahoma? A buddy of mine has dug hundreds of Dragoon buttons in Texas and Oklahoma, but only one was one piece.

 

[lost crow]

Hi Steve, all my dragoon buttons are 2 piece. I think they are Horstman & sons but I don't remember for sure and I don't have them with me right now. All were found in Oklahoma.

 

[Lloydd]

My best Eagle!
Lloyd

 

[Relichunter1]

Here are a few of mine..I was hunting a site in California and found a old camp site. I located 10 eagle D buttons in this spot including a pistol. Love these eagle d 's, as you ca see my profile has a few of the others I found.

 

[relic lover]

Dont find many but here are my 4 best ones. the last one i found with the badge i found about 3 feet apart.

Man that badge is the best CW relic I have ever seen! One of a kind!

 

[riverdiver]

This is my only Eagle button so far, I recovered it from a pond in a really small backwoods village, it originally had some cloth still attached and was pulled out of that nasty black mud found in the bottom of stagnant ponds. My Albert's button book states that it is an early federal militia button.

 

[kuger]

The New York Legion-First Vol.,led by Jonathan Stevenson,was sent to secure and settle Calif,by President Polk in 1847.Attached was also the First Artillery.They left a couple of there coveted buttons which I cherish!
Also are a few G.S.,and Infantries I have been fortunate to find as well

 

[CC Hunter]

Kuger,

Those New York Legions are about as rare a button as can be found out West!!! Especially that awesome large gold gilt two-piece example.

The gold on that eagle Artillery button is amazing!

I'm setting my goal for an eagle "V" this year.

CC Hunter

 

[kuger]

Kuger,

Those New York Legions are about as rare a button as can be found out West!!! Especially that awesome large gold gilt two-piece example.

The gold on that eagle Artillery button is amazing!

I'm setting my goal for an eagle "V" this year.

CC Hunter

Thanks buddy,aside from us,they are the most unappreciated too!

Yea,I will keel over when I dig a "V"!!

 

[Don in SJ]

I have been fortunate enough to have found a few, especially since for the military ones, I hunt nowhere near where any action took place.
Two of the buttons with Eagles on them are unique, being the only known examples of them, so they are my favorite button finds of all time.
United States Topographical Engineer button ca. 1820, Albert's TE-1 known as the USTE button

War of 1812 Union Greens button, Irish militia unit from Baltimore Md, which fought in the Battle of North Point saving Ft McHenry during the battle when the National Anthem was written.

Patriotic button, Alberts UU132A

1820 era button with a Naval Eagle backmark

Jacsonian Eagle button

Early US Naval button

Congressional Campaign button of 1834

War of 1812 era button

1840 era Naval button

Several Eagle backmarked buttons


I have other Eagle buttons, mostly from CW era and post CW, just no photographs available right now.

Don

 

[goldencoin]

Sweet buttons everyone! Always like military buttons, my favorite is my avatar, only because it is in such nice shape.

HH
-GC