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[pumice]

Not the selection you can find on the right coast....but still a good find for the left coast.........An Indian Wars Button!

 

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[DiggerDave in Pa.]

Not the selection you can find on the right coast....but still a good find for the left coast.........An Indian Wars Button!

Looks like a nice one. Thanks for sharing. DD.

 

[MKnTenn]

Looks Civil War to me, I've dug ones just like yours in Civil War camps. Couldn't ask for a nicer one. HH

 

[Getty]

That is a nice ,solid button, congrats!

 

[kuger]

I am pretty sure thats Pre I.W's and they are out here,but thats a nice one!!

 

[pumice]

That's how I can identify some the IW relics that I've found, is looking at the CW stuff that is found.........

 

[Nooberz]

Sweet CW Infantry Button. Darn good shape as well!!

 

[jewelerguy]

that's beautiful

 

[BuckleBoy]

IW era eagle buttons will have the pointed shield and chicken eagle. That's a pre-IW button, and a great find.

 

[kuger]

IW era eagle buttons will have the pointed shield and chicken eagle. That's a pre-IW button, and a great find.

 

[CC Hunter]

While collectors use the term "Indian War" to designate the arms and equipment of the time period following the American Civil War, up to the Spanish American War, technically we have had continuous conflicts with native "Indians" well before the ACW, all the way back to before our nation was founded. I believe that Pumice here was merely attributing this button find to be from the fortifications and occupation of the Western areas by military forces due to potential native unrest. Our particular "Indian Wars" in proximity to volcanic regions (I.E: pumice ), were well documented in the 1850's and 1860's. My own relic hunting passion had the earliest beginnings in Florida's Second Seminole War sites, of 1835-1842. Calling an 1840's dragoon button an "Indian War" button might be confusing to the collecting community, yet my finds from those hunts actually were Indian War buttons.

CC Hunter

 

[kuger]

While collectors use the term "Indian War" to designate the arms and equipment of the time period following the American Civil War, up to the Spanish American War, technically we have had continuous conflicts with native "Indians" well before the ACW, all the way back to before our nation was founded. I believe that Pumice here was merely attributing this button find to be from the fortifications and occupation of the Western areas by military forces due to potential native unrest. Our particular "Indian Wars" in proximity to volcanic regions (I.E: pumice ), were well documented in the 1850's and 1860's. My own relic hunting passion had the earliest beginnings in Florida's Second Seminole War sites, of 1835-1842. Calling an 1840's dragoon button an "Indian War" button might be confusing to the collecting community, yet my finds from those hunts actually were Indian War buttons.

CC Hunter

Great point as usual CC.

 

[MKnTenn]

So that would make it a - ultra high relief, Civil War era Indian Wars eagle button, with a blank back, slick chocolate brown patina, cool