Many Seated Silvers, LA Pelican, and a TEXAS NAVY, Silver 1820s eyeglasses

BuckleBoy

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Hello All,

I resisted the urge to post about this site for quite a while, because I wanted to keep it a bit of a secret. Well now that the field is planted, all bets are off on hunting it again. (I actually got one more hunt in right after I made this video, and dug a great find I'll post soon!) Well here it is, a ton of seated silver and some incredible buttons dug by my wife Diggergirl and my buddy Shane!



Watch the video on this amazing site (it's long but worth it--one day I forgot my camera lol so there are some still photos in the middle of the video).

So I'll just post photos of the finds below. My wife with one of the pocket full of minieballs we've dug!

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Seated dime cut down to half dime size. ???

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M1858 Remington Revolver Trigger Guard:

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Mid-1800s breath mint tin (Hooper's Cachou Aromatise):

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More silver! 1852-O is a lower mintage coin :)

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Handheld oil lamp:

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Cartridge box finial and a big, heavy piece of silver:

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Shane's Texas Navy (which he made a separate post for!)

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U.S. Corps of Artillerists and Engineers Button I dug (1799-1802)

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North and South! My wife's beautiful Eagle button and a Louisiana Pelican (backmark on the Pelican is "H.E.BALDWIN & CO / NEW-ORLEANS" which is a backmark we haven't had before! It's LA220A1 in the Tice book :) :

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Minieball made into a fishing sinker:

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Native American point (tiny one!). These are VERY rare to find in South Louisiana. We don't have rocks here, so there was nothing to make them from!

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Double barrel shotgun breechblock:

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pre-war convex eagle one-piece button:

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lead tobacco tin lid toppers (first photo below), numerous minieballs and .44 cal pistol civil war bullets (not pictured), plow-destroyed silver half reale, shoulder scale button, civil war (not pictured), and cartridge box and cap box finials:

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Silver eyeglasses frame fragment made between 1819 and 1838 by Louis-Michel Crouvezier, who worked in Paris at 25 rue St-Martin, followed by a photo of a non-dug pair with the fragment I found circled:

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And some photos of the combined finds:

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Best Wishes and HH,

Buckleboy and the CaneField Bandits
 

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I see you found my glasses... and my breath mints. I was wondering where I left those. :laughing7: Nice job as usual BB. :thumbsup:
 

yeah, for sure. Nice!:occasion14:
 

I see you found my glasses... and my breath mints. I was wondering where I left those. :laughing7: Nice job as usual BB. :thumbsup:


Haha! Evo it's good to hear from you my friend!! Thanks so much for the reply!
 

Congrats on all the half dimes. Have not gotten one myself for about a year now
 

That's one heck of a hunt! Nice finds and documentation of it all! Thanks for the share of some fascinating history!
 

Outstanding hunt and post, congrats! :notworthy:
 

That's one heck of a hunt! Nice finds and documentation of it all! Thanks for the share of some fascinating history!

thanks so much for your kind reply!
 

That, my friend, is a fantastic bunch of finds! Don't blame you for keeping this location under your hat. Love all of the seated coins. It's been a while since I've managed to swing my coil over one. Congratulations to you and Diggergirl.
 

Awesome finds and a very well written post! Congratulations!
 

That, my friend, is a fantastic bunch of finds! Don't blame you for keeping this location under your hat. Love all of the seated coins. It's been a while since I've managed to swing my coil over one. Congratulations to you and Diggergirl.

thank you buddy!
 

What a great series of hunts you had! Congratulations to all!

good Lord, we just did it again! I’m cleaning up finds and I’ll post it as soon as I’ve got the video done!
 

Holy cow! That is all an impressive mixed bag of saves. This is the part of the comment where I give you an evil eye because the seated anythings still elude my coil.

Great stuff!
 

Holy cow! That is all an impressive mixed bag of saves. This is the part of the comment where I give you an evil eye because the seated anythings still elude my coil.

Great stuff!

haha thanks so much!
 

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