Full coat or card of GA State Seal buttons?

[Bharpring]

I found these GA State Seal buttons today in a 7'x7' area. A total of 11 coat and 6 cuff. The backmark for all is Waterbury Burton Co. I haven't cleaned them yet because a few of them have a backing cover thing that looks like brass and iron with a thin rope. The thin rope has a some gold thread as well. I have a piece of the thread in the pictures as well. Can anyone tell me if these are from a coat or a card/plaque (before they were worn)? How many buttons would have been on a coat? Should I leave them alone and not clean them since they still have that cover thing on the back? Please advise as to what I should do with these?

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Those buttons are absolutely NOT from a burial or grave. Brass buttons excavated from a body-burial site always show severe corrosion (especially on the back) due to exposure to body-acids as the corpse's flesh rots. Those fluids do penetrate the clothing on the corpse. Sorry if the description is offensively gruesome, but I felt a detailed explanation was needed to give Bharpring (and the forum's readers) solid assurance that his buttons are not from a human body burial.

If anybody doubts what I've said here, do a websearch for images of brass buttons excavated from body-burials. There might be some on Archeological websites. I've seen such buttons in real-life, and their body-acid-corroded appearance is unmistakable.

 

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