1790s GW MOURNING CUFFLINKS, 1810 1/2 REAL AND A CONFEDERATE BUTTON

[PEles]

1790's GW MOURNING CUFFLINKS, 1810 1/2 REAL AND A CONFEDERATE BUTTON

Man that was fun! Got out this week with a great group of friends. We do it once a year and have a blast. It always is when our group gets together.The house we rented was nice. Not too many places you can walk out the back door gather fresh oysters off the banks and come in and steam em. That was awsome ,Clay did the harvesting Only thing bad about this week was the weather and the land we hunted. The rain got us for 3 days and we couldn't hunt and the properties we landed had either been hit hard or were colonial with no marked buttons turning up. We hit one site that was loaded with flat buttons but that was about it, we dug about 100 buttons none marked though. Now that was a large site but kinda disappointing. Dennis and Mike Scott of First Texas detectors dug 2 pretty nice coins out of if it though. A gorgeous KG copper and an 1812 real.Mike also dug a nice confederate script I button and another 1812 1/2 real out of another spot we found. I know some of the guys were disappointed, but you can't control the weather or what's on certain tracts of land when you have 13 hungry diggers. We haven't laughed that hard in a long time, it was fun as always . We have a great group of friends and I love them all like brothers. Well here's what i dug other than some flat buttons.

The Hun

 

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[jewelerguy]

those are some sweet finds

 

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[PEles]

Cool cuff links...I hope it turns out to be a George Washington mourning piece. Do you have these listed somewhere as that or are you basing it on the design from the George Washington Funeral Urn Medal? Nice piece either way but GW would be huge and the first I have ever seen. Good luck

Thanks Ive seen theses listed as such before.I dont know where the GW connection got started, very likely from the funeral urn medal like you said.The little things can't be too common .We had 13 diggers detecting this site and they were from New York, Virginia, california and the carolinas.Almost every digger that attended had 30 yrs experience relic hunting and not one had ever found a set like these. It may be a common find in England , but over here they're not.Heck in England the diggers toss finds from the 17 1800's ,over there they think its junk. I wonder how many diggers on this site have dug a pair like these in the states? Im sure theres a few , but you can probably count them on one hand. Common find? Not for our side of the pond they're not. I remember finding a nice 1795 half dime a couple yrs ago. To the guys in England its a modern piece over here its valued at 5000.00 plus , not exactly what we consider junk.


The Hun

 

[BuckleBoy]

Beautiful finds! Great stuff.

 

[PEles]

Beautiful finds! Great stuff.

thanks bud appreciate it

 

[PEles]

Those are some great looking finds! I love the cuff-links and and the coin and SC button ain't too shaby neither. And, for what it's worth, you always take excellent pictures. What kind of camera do you use? You can't control the weather, and like a lot of sites around here, you can't control what is there and who has hunted it. I think you did pretty good! Tennessee digger

thanks the camera is a little samsung pl 120 . Think I paid about 100 dollars for it.

 

[hamiddetecting]

Nice

 

[NolanTheExplorer]

Wow those are some sweet finds. What state did you guys hunt in? That sounds like a good time!

 

[jamesbibb]

Good hunt Pete

 

[Silver Searcher]

Cool cuff links...I hope it turns out to be a George Washington mourning piece. Do you have these listed somewhere as that or are you basing it on the design from the George Washington Funeral Urn Medal? Nice piece either way but GW would be huge and the first I have ever seen. Good luck

Thanks Ive seen theses listed as such before.I dont know where the GW connection got started, very likely from the funeral urn medal like you said.The little things can't be too common .We had 13 diggers detecting this site and they were from New York, Virginia, california and the carolinas.Almost every digger that attended had 30 yrs experience relic hunting and not one had ever found a set like these. It may be a common find in England , but over here they're not.Heck in England the diggers toss finds from the 17 1800's ,over there they think its junk. I wonder how many diggers on this site have dug a pair like these in the states? Im sure theres a few , but you can probably count them on one hand. Common find? Not for our side of the pond they're not. I remember finding a nice 1795 half dime a couple yrs ago. To the guys in England its a modern piece over here its valued at 5000.00 plus , not exactly what we consider junk.


The Hun

Nice finds and a great hunt you had...but I certainly don't throw finds from the 1700's or 1800's into the junk pile and I don't see any concrete proof that these cuff-links are GW related, but more of the mourning conection in general, even though they slip into the general date period.

SS

 

[PEles]

Wow those are some sweet finds. What state did you guys hunt in? That sounds like a good time!

we dig in he lowcountry of South Carolina, thanks for the compliments.

 

[PEles]

Nice finds and a great hunt you had...but I certainly don't throw finds from the 1700's or 1800's into the junk pile and I don't see any concrete proof that these cuff-links are GW related, but more of the mourning conection in general, even though they slip into the general date period.

SS

Hey bud , thanks yeah I dont have a clue where the GW connection on these got started.Ive seen it a few times over the years.No proof like you said. They date to about the time period of his death and over here the urn symbol on things isnt found like it is in England.Since so little is found maybe thats the reason.When he died then the urn finds started turning up , but not before or after.Its just an assumption though. Good to hear you dont toss 1700- 1800's finds. I thought all you guys cared about was the roman, celtic stuff.

The Hun

 

[s.c.shooter]

Pete, it looks like someone shot the reale with a .22?

 

[CoilyGirl]

What a great hunt you had,congrats!

 

[PEles]

Pete, it looks like someone shot the reale with a .22?

no they holed it on purpose to wear or sew into the lining of some coat. They messed it up when they tried to hole it .Coins with holes done on purpose are quite common finds on old sites. Whats bad is when you find a real rare coin thats been holed.My buddy dug one last month in Virginia.It was a 1794 half dime.Even with the hole it was appraised at 3000.00 dollars. Imagine if it had been perfect whew!

The Hun

 

[Ifoundit69]

Now thats a nice score !

 

[Devonrex]

Like this. Well this one's not holed and found in the same area as your friends who chose T. D. loyalty over my friendship. Wonder what its worth? As if thats really what relic hunters should really be concentrating on. But yeah, here on this site we can say or do whatever we please and not get banned. I really don't think I need to say anymore. I'm not impressed by you or Little Texas.

 

[Davers]

Awesome finds, A great combo of history along with MDing skill & luck...Again I say very very nice

 

[rgarfo]

Sounds like a fun day no matter what you find, great work

 

[Holly_squirrel]

I'm jealous , I'll never find anything in that good of shape around here. This heavy wet clay soil eats coins . Great job! Wonderful finds

 

[Bubba65]

Those are awesome finds just like what has already been said by other posters. Thanks for sharing Pete

Bubba65