BuckleBoy
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Hello All,
Went out with DiggerGirl to do some hunting in a spot that hasn't given us much so far. It was a little wet, and the mud was soup in the bottom of the sugar cane rows. That didn't deter us. We persisted through the slop after starting with a couple turn rows.
DiggerGirl was the first to score with a nice nickel. 1884 V nickel in decent shape. Then she scored a flat button and I got a piece of a spur. The spur looks like it had a duck, snake, or dog head on it where the neck terminated in the rowel. Interesting!
We then got a couple Civil War bullets, and I walked up on an Eagle Button right in the top of the row. My last great dig was an 1853-O with arrows Seated Half Dime, then DG dug a cuff button that appears to be a cuff sized 1840s Navy button with fouled vertical anchor and eagle on top, lined background and a rope border were dead giveaways. In Tice's book, this button is closest to the cuff version of NA203A9. I hope you enjoy the video and photos.
Here's the freshly dug Eagle Button (GS). (I actually dug a Scovill Waterbury back (missing the front) that is the same size as this one, so that is a great sign too.)
And the half dime in the sticky mud:
DiggerGirl smiling with her pre-CW Navy Cuff Button:
And her nice 1884 V:
Here's the strange spur that I dug. If anyone has seen this style before, please chime in.
I also recovered this blue glass bead. I'm not sure these would qualify as "trade beads," but perhaps someone in the trade artifacts forum can give me some more information. This one looks blown or tooled in some way (the swirl mark only appears on one end of the bead). I have recovered several legitimate trade beads (russian blues and a green), but I've also found several like this one in pre-CW sites:
And of course the 1853-O half dime will add nicely to the totals for 2013.
All my finds:
A bone-handled pocketknife that had some of the handle still surviving.
And DiggerGirl's Navy Cuff button:
Best Wishes and HH,
Buck
Went out with DiggerGirl to do some hunting in a spot that hasn't given us much so far. It was a little wet, and the mud was soup in the bottom of the sugar cane rows. That didn't deter us. We persisted through the slop after starting with a couple turn rows.
DiggerGirl was the first to score with a nice nickel. 1884 V nickel in decent shape. Then she scored a flat button and I got a piece of a spur. The spur looks like it had a duck, snake, or dog head on it where the neck terminated in the rowel. Interesting!
We then got a couple Civil War bullets, and I walked up on an Eagle Button right in the top of the row. My last great dig was an 1853-O with arrows Seated Half Dime, then DG dug a cuff button that appears to be a cuff sized 1840s Navy button with fouled vertical anchor and eagle on top, lined background and a rope border were dead giveaways. In Tice's book, this button is closest to the cuff version of NA203A9. I hope you enjoy the video and photos.
Here's the freshly dug Eagle Button (GS). (I actually dug a Scovill Waterbury back (missing the front) that is the same size as this one, so that is a great sign too.)
And the half dime in the sticky mud:
DiggerGirl smiling with her pre-CW Navy Cuff Button:
And her nice 1884 V:
Here's the strange spur that I dug. If anyone has seen this style before, please chime in.
I also recovered this blue glass bead. I'm not sure these would qualify as "trade beads," but perhaps someone in the trade artifacts forum can give me some more information. This one looks blown or tooled in some way (the swirl mark only appears on one end of the bead). I have recovered several legitimate trade beads (russian blues and a green), but I've also found several like this one in pre-CW sites:
And of course the 1853-O half dime will add nicely to the totals for 2013.
All my finds:
A bone-handled pocketknife that had some of the handle still surviving.
And DiggerGirl's Navy Cuff button:
Best Wishes and HH,
Buck
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