Colonial Cufflink, Knee Buckle, and Pewter Buttons from the pit...

[OutdoorAdv]

After I found the King Louis XVI button in the pit last weekend (http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/t...ing-louis-xvi-button-trash-pit-much-more.html), I couldn't wait to get back and open the adjacent section. I had a few hours after work yesterday, so I made time to go sift this new section.

Not much pottery or glass turned up, but I got a KILLER cufflink and some sweet pewter buttons. I do owe the cufflink, knee buckle and large loop lead button retrieval to some advice metalev4 gave me a couple weeks ago. He recommended that I scrape the clay layer at the bottom of the pit, as he has found some of the best stuff in that hard layer. Previously, I was not seeing much in that layer, so I would begin my back filling. Yesterday the bottom of the pit had a bunch of ferrous signals... I was tired and almost just began my sifting but figured id clear out some of the nails with my pin pointer anyway. Doing this unmasked the knee buckle, cufflink and lead button. Makes me wonder how much I missed before and I will be spending some time searching that clay layer from now on. Thanks metalev4



This is my favorite link yet. It's been a great year for cufflinks for me. My typical links are smooth or toasted with no designs. When this thing turned up I sat there grinning for a solid 5 minutes. What do you guys make of it? Is it the Sun with a vine on the border? Or birds or hearts?




Some good buttons turned up too. Two pewters with designs and one cast lead button with a huge loop on the back. The knee buckle was complete, but folded in half with a large break. It fell apart in my hands, but its still all there. Looks like it has a pretty cool design on it.



A bone button, couple porcelain buttons and a tombac button turned up too. A few pipe stems (one is a large bore), 3 ringer minie, and a thimble piece also came out.



I keep finding pieces of blown glass that would have been incredible if the bottle was complete. I don't know much about glass, but I sure would love to find a bottle like this complete one day.



This is an old bottle lip... again, would be awesome if the whole bottle was attached to it.



Thanks for looking and happy hunting everyone!

 

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[Brian W]

That cufflink has an amazing patina...and design...love the buckle and pewter button too...I love colonial artifacts...all the hand crafted workmanship is awesome...great hunt ..Congrats

 

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[OutdoorAdv]

Brad, here is my sifter. it is a collapsible A-Frame. Might give you some ideas.

Great design Steve. I like how you can roll it on the frame or hang it. When I make a full size one, I'm going to use that design.

Brad once in awhile I see a find that I just fall in love with. It doesn't ha e to be rare or valuable. I just love the look or design of it. This is for sure one of those funds for me. The design, the patina....I just love that thing man. I gotta start digging pits. God knows my sites are plenty old. But I'll use a long rod

Thanks a bunch dude. I feel the same way about this link... Funny what things we end up liking the most. The bone toothbrush I sifted is another one of the things that really stood out to me.

That cufflink has an amazing patina...and design...love the buckle and pewter button too...I love colonial artifacts...all the hand crafted workmanship is awesome...great hunt ..Congrats

Thanks a ton Brian! These things were definitely made well... There's nothing like a hand engraved button or piece of brass. I dug a cool musket patch box plate that had a bunch of engraving work done on it. It's like Colonial artwork. Ha

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Thanks a bunch Casper!

 

[johnnyblaze]

Nice link there Brad
Sweet buckle but it's most likely a hat buckle.

~Blaze

 

[OutdoorAdv]

Nice link there Brad
Sweet buckle but it's most likely a hat buckle.

~Blaze

Thanks a ton JB! Good to know about that buckle. The American Artifacts of Personal Adornment book describes all the buckle types (boot, knee, coat, hat, stock, etc) and I couldn't really tell much difference in the description. Ha. This one does appear to be square and I know the other knee buckles I found were not square. Thanks for the info and hope you've been getting out man.

 

[johnnyblaze]

Cool man the thing to remember is knee buckles are USUALLY not very ornate..They really were not seen straight on like a shoe or hat buckles..
They are mostly oval or plain shoe buckled framed with a little edge design..I think many of hat buckles have been called knee over the years but we will never really know..Anyway you want it to be a hat buckle much more rare
See one in live motion how they would have looked.
Fast forward this video to exactly 5 minutes..

~Blaze

 

[OutdoorAdv]

Cool man the thing to remember is knee buckles are USUALLY not very ornate..They really were not seen straight on like a shoe or hat buckles..
They are mostly oval or plain shoe buckled framed with a little edge design..I think many of hat buckles have been called knee over the years but we will never really know..Anyway you want it to be a hat buckle much more rare
See one in live motion how they would have looked.
Fast forward this video to exactly 5 minutes..

~Blaze

Sweet! That one in the video is awesome. Totally makes sense about it being ornate. Hat buckle it is! If I ever send something off for restoration, maybe I can piggyback that buckle in there. While it might only have historical value to me, it would look so much nicer displayed as one piece.