Aureus
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Had an other successful hunt with some interesting military and civilian relics. I decided to revisit my new site as the fact that I have found zero military buttons there was bugging me. I chose as a strategy to slow down and dig every questionable signal at the spot that contained the most old iron junk and square nails. Dug a good amount of junk but managed to find a few really interesting military buttons.
My favorite is an officer's (or senior NCO's) 32nd Regiment of foot silver plated button. The period is hard to determine precisely but this style of one piece button for this particular regiment was used from 1790's to 1820's The 32nd regiment famously faced and defeated Napoleon's Armies at the battle of Waterloo in 1815
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Also found the 70th Regiment of foot enlisted man button from the War of 1812
An other interesting military button that I haven't managed to ID. It's a thick pewter one piece with no writing in the back. The writing on the front seems to be 1-V-M (possibly 1st Regiment of Volunteer Militia)
Victorian 5th Regiment button 1840's-1860's
Had a big surprise in form of my fourth horn or bugle shako plate in two weeks. This one is absolutely mint,no damage what so ever.
A friend of mine sent me a pic of an identical one that he has seen at an historic reenactment event,it was worn by a Rifles unit and dated to 1837-1839
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Found an other piece of shako. This one appears to be pewter and has a Tudor Rose design.
Also got a very nice relic that had me puzzled. A beautiful shoe buckle frame from 1720's-1790's with an interesting design I haven't seen before.
Sent a pic to Iron Patch to get his opinion and withing a few minutes he managed to link it to Staffordshire,U.K. as he has seen a similar decoration on the military relics from that region. It's called a ''Stafford or Staffordshire knot''. It's one of the nicest and perhaps most unusual buckle I have ever found.
Not many coins but some were in a good condition.
Not the case for this Connecticut Copper
Great looking Tiffin Halfpenny Token 1812
A mint Victoria One Cent 1888
And a good looking Indian 1883
Thanks for the comments.
My favorite is an officer's (or senior NCO's) 32nd Regiment of foot silver plated button. The period is hard to determine precisely but this style of one piece button for this particular regiment was used from 1790's to 1820's The 32nd regiment famously faced and defeated Napoleon's Armies at the battle of Waterloo in 1815
Also found the 70th Regiment of foot enlisted man button from the War of 1812
An other interesting military button that I haven't managed to ID. It's a thick pewter one piece with no writing in the back. The writing on the front seems to be 1-V-M (possibly 1st Regiment of Volunteer Militia)
Victorian 5th Regiment button 1840's-1860's
Had a big surprise in form of my fourth horn or bugle shako plate in two weeks. This one is absolutely mint,no damage what so ever.
A friend of mine sent me a pic of an identical one that he has seen at an historic reenactment event,it was worn by a Rifles unit and dated to 1837-1839
Found an other piece of shako. This one appears to be pewter and has a Tudor Rose design.
Also got a very nice relic that had me puzzled. A beautiful shoe buckle frame from 1720's-1790's with an interesting design I haven't seen before.
Sent a pic to Iron Patch to get his opinion and withing a few minutes he managed to link it to Staffordshire,U.K. as he has seen a similar decoration on the military relics from that region. It's called a ''Stafford or Staffordshire knot''. It's one of the nicest and perhaps most unusual buckle I have ever found.
Not many coins but some were in a good condition.
Not the case for this Connecticut Copper
Great looking Tiffin Halfpenny Token 1812
A mint Victoria One Cent 1888
And a good looking Indian 1883
Thanks for the comments.
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Looks like a very fun and productive detecting adventure!
