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Went back to the sweet spot hoping to dig another cannon ball, as I was able to dig my first one Sunday.
We have cherrypicked this spot to death. My intentions were to dig lots of iron and all the low tones.
Early on I had one hard iron hit that sound a little iffy, so I decided to dig and pulled a large piece of iron from the hole.
Then I stuck the pinpointer back in and it started beeping again and saw a large button in the hole.
At first I thought this was another French Marines button, but noticed a little decoration, or actually a letter on it.
After I cleaned it a little I see the C, then the A. At this point im thinking NO WAY. and then I see the S. C.S.A.
OMG. been wanting to dig something I can can truly say is confederate now for over 4 years, and today it happened.
So I was looking for another cannon ball today, but Im actually much happier with the button...
Bucket List Dream Find.!!!
Oh and my buddy got his first cannon ball today. And the button cleaning is coming along well.
The first 2 pics is what it looked like after getting it home.
The second 2 pics are the button after toothpicking. Im still working on it and will update.
I think im done for now. Backmark isn't very readable.
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Last pic is my cannonball from sunday on the left and my buddies larger cannonball from today on the right.
UPDATE: Since this thread was bumped back up I wanted to say that I cleaned the buttons back a little more and I can start to see a SUPERIOR QUALITY backmark. I also cleaned one of the Cannon Balls with electrolysis and will be adding more pics.
After waiting 24 hours to dry and coating the ball with Satin Urethane, it is starting to look like some rust is coming back.
I'm kind of new with doing electrolysis on iron. Maybe I should have let it dry longer or run electrolysis longer. I will probably wait until the summer and do more electro on it.
We have cherrypicked this spot to death. My intentions were to dig lots of iron and all the low tones.
Early on I had one hard iron hit that sound a little iffy, so I decided to dig and pulled a large piece of iron from the hole.
Then I stuck the pinpointer back in and it started beeping again and saw a large button in the hole.
At first I thought this was another French Marines button, but noticed a little decoration, or actually a letter on it.
After I cleaned it a little I see the C, then the A. At this point im thinking NO WAY. and then I see the S. C.S.A.
OMG. been wanting to dig something I can can truly say is confederate now for over 4 years, and today it happened.
So I was looking for another cannon ball today, but Im actually much happier with the button...
Bucket List Dream Find.!!!Oh and my buddy got his first cannon ball today. And the button cleaning is coming along well.
The first 2 pics is what it looked like after getting it home.
The second 2 pics are the button after toothpicking. Im still working on it and will update.
I think im done for now. Backmark isn't very readable.
View attachment 1257090Last pic is my cannonball from sunday on the left and my buddies larger cannonball from today on the right.
UPDATE: Since this thread was bumped back up I wanted to say that I cleaned the buttons back a little more and I can start to see a SUPERIOR QUALITY backmark. I also cleaned one of the Cannon Balls with electrolysis and will be adding more pics.
After waiting 24 hours to dry and coating the ball with Satin Urethane, it is starting to look like some rust is coming back.
I'm kind of new with doing electrolysis on iron. Maybe I should have let it dry longer or run electrolysis longer. I will probably wait until the summer and do more electro on it.
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