FIRST REAL HUNT OF THE YEAR

[Ahab8]

So I don't have to tell anybody on the east coast just how terrible this winter has been. Lots of my new sites are still buried in snow and the others are still frozen. I told my crew that we were going to start working four ten hour days and taking three day weekends. Today was beautiful and sunny but I had a bunch of errands to do. Finally around 4 I was able to get to the one site that's a little bit thawed out. This site is about dead last on my list but after 4 or 5 months I couldn't wait to get there.
My first decent find of the day was a beautifully shaped axe head of some sort. I believe it may have been used for wooden shingles but am sure one of the fine folks on here will straighten me out with id. This was found in an area that I found a couple of early 1800s LCs and am assuming that this would be of similar age. I absolutely love the shape of this big nasty hunk of rusty iron :-)




Most of this site is still frozen so I walked toward the water to a spot that gets sun most of the day. I got a deep signal and dug down about 10 or. 11" inches. All I could see was big round disc with a green patina in the hole. Thought for sure it was an old coin and was pretty psyched. Pulled it out and it had a gold colored face. I had no idea what it was at first but new the patina and depth pointed to something with some decent age.
Had to take off after that and when I got home and gave the back of my round item a bit of a cleaning I could see that there used to be a shank there. So if this indeed a button ( which I assume it must be) it's the biggest button easily that I've ever found. Even bigger than the Tombac I found. The little round designs on the front are made up of several little tiny dimples. I would very much appreciate if anyone has a clue about potential age of this crazy round item. :-)




















It was so nice to get out for a bit and it made it even better when I saw 6 mature bald eagles flying around together. Two of them would not separate and flew wing to wing together the whole time. Very cool to see. Sorry bout the pics but they were up there

 

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[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

I'd love to hear the story some time. Though it may work against you it's still pretty cool to have a unique specimen. Not many people can say that. Talking about you of course and not me

My avitar is one of those type of finds, never got a pos. ID in 6 + years. I even wrote mark parker.
From the marks on the back an E inside a maple leaf it was made by P. W. Ellis & Co in Toronto between 1877 and 1928.
from here.
Canadian Silver Marks - Online Encyclopedia of Silver Marks, Hallmarks & Makers' Marks

But that is it, I'd still call it a collar stud, but not likely military issue, and not what you'd call common generic either, as no other has shown up. For those reasons of rarity, unknown, it is still one of my favorites.

EDIT, PS Mark Parker (the expert) said it "may" be something related to queen Victoria's diamond juiblee. Probably just because the time frame fits, and he could come up with nothing else. As IP suggests, an experts "best guess". As many different military medals, adornments as have been made, I'm still not ruling that out.

 

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[Ahab8]

My avitar is one of those type of finds, never got a pos. ID in 6 + years. I even wrote mark parker. From the marks on the back an E inside a maple leaf it was made by P. W. Ellis & Co in Toronto between 1877 and 1928. from here. Canadian Silver Marks - Online Encyclopedia of Silver Marks, Hallmarks & Makers' Marks But that is it, I'd still call it a collar stud, but not likely military issue, and not what you'd call common generic either, as no other has shown up. For those reasons of rarity, unknown, it is still one of my favorites. EDIT, PS Mark Parker (the expert) said it "may" be something related to queen Victoria's diamond juiblee. Probably just because the time frame fits, and he could come up with nothing else. As IP suggests, an experts "best guess". As many different military medals, adornments as have been made, I'm still not ruling that out.

It's a beautiful piece Rick. I must say its kind of neat to have a "unique" piece but it'd also be cool to know exactly what you have. For me personally having something that may have had symbolism of the original 13 colonies and the struggle to gain our independence is pretty special. And if yours is from Victorias diamond jubilee that is pretty darned neat.