A button, a bullet, some coins and more

[DigginDownUnder]

Here's my effort for today.
Eight coins in total (five in one hole), a toy phone, bullet, an excelsior button, and a few randoms.


Notable coins - 1927 Three Pence (silver) and a 1916 Aus Penny.

This toy phone is kind of cool.


And can anyone ID this bullet and give me information on the button

 

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[georgia boy]

Excelsior is New York states motto,but that's all I know about the button.

 

[DigginDownUnder]

Excelsior is New York states motto,but that's all I know about the button.

Thanks for that, I wonder who would have worn this?
How did it get on my farm in Australia?

I have found a total of six buttons on this old home site that dates pre 1900's.

The site belonged to my first ancestor to arrive in Australia, he came across on infamous The Neptune.
He later went on to work along side the explorers Hovell and Hume.

These are the six buttons I've found at the site so far, including a New South Wales General service militia button, a captains Royal naval button, the excelsior button, a handmade silver button, and a (been told) military pants button?



Along with the cap and ball, and flintlock bullets, I wonder what was going on at this site 100+ years ago?

 

[vpnavy]

Thanks for sharing...

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

From Wikipedia:
Excelsior is a Latin adjective meaning "higher" or "loftier", used in English as an interjection with a poetic meaning of "ever upward".
Excelsior - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Although the word "Excelsior" is the motto of the US state of New York, "Excelsior" has also been used as the same of several clothing-manufacturers ever since the 1800s... notably, the Excelsior Clothing Company of Manchester, England. I do not believe your Australia-dug 4-hole button marked "Excelsior" has any relation to the state motto of New York USA.

The type of brass 4-hole button you found, made of machine-stamped sheetbrass, can date from as early as the mid-1800s, and is still being manufactured today. It has been used on several forms of clothing, including on shirts, pants-flies, and long woolen underwear ("longjohns").