5th Maryland Regiment "The Dandy Fifth" button pulled from iron farm

[smokeythecat]

I went to a site that is ancient for Maryland. This one field in particular had a colonial home in it. The home is long gone. The ground is filled with broken pieces of kitchen kettles, other iron items, rose head nails, every kind of junk iron you can imagine and in big pieces not less. About an hour into the hunt I got a fairly decent but odd sounding signal on the Deus. I dug down about 8" and pulled out a Maryland 5th Regiment National Guard button next to a big chunk of an older broken kettle. The regiment, known as the "Dandy Fifth" has a long history in Maryland. These buttons was made after the Civil War. The regiment participated in the Centennial parades in 1876. This button dates to that time frame or just after. This is the first Maryland National Guard button for me. My digging partner dug another one today also. I nailed it on colonial items. Too many finds, not enough time to clean them up!View attachment IMG_0803.jpg

 

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[Calabash Digger]

Very nice indeed!

 

[Patriot Relics]

Nice looking two piece with even better history.

 

[smokeythecat]

Thank you. The regiment traces it's lineage back to the Revolution, and there is a stone monstrosity, called the "Fifth Regiment Armory" in Baltimore to this day. They used to have the big Baltimore Antique arms show there for years before they moved it to the Timonium area. It was literally 3 blocks from my grandmother's house a few thousand years ago. Well almost that long ago.

 

[Phishfarmer]

Killer button; I've never seen one before.

 

[thrifty76now]

Now that is a great find,

 

[dirtlooter]

beautiful button and very cool. you have some awesome sites to hunt

 

[Gene Mean]

Beautiful button. Looks like it's in great shape. Did you clean it more?

 

[smokeythecat]

Thank you all. I just washed it with some water and a toothbrush. It has a lot of gilt remaining on it. The four St. Timothy's Hall school buttons from last year and this makes 5 Maryland attributed buttons in the last year. The St. Timothy's Hall buttons are Civil War. Now this button is not an expensive button, but hey, that's fine. I really like it. Have to clean stuff up tomorrow or the next day. I saved some of the neater iron objects. There were at least four or five items that literally came out of the ground with a big chunk of iron right with them! I don't know if I have a hammered coin or bale seals, and that one odd whatzit may be silver or pewter.

 

[hbru123]

Amazing find! Congrats!

 

[treblehunter]

Nice button, congrats!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratulations on the very nice find!

 

[Kurios1]

Lovely historic old button there Smokey. So much cooler than collecting baseball cards. Well done in the iron field.

 

[smokeythecat]

Kurios1, that iron patch gave me half of my "goodies" There were three or more pieces of iron under the Deus' coil at one time. I still won out! Some of the iron is very nice, for instance, I have legs attaching to two old colonial kettles. I keep the more interesting iron.

 

[Relicific]

She’s a beauty
Congrats