Old pocket knife and a few "different for me" buttons

[Darby]

Found this pocket knife at one of our colonial sites. Not sure how old but cool find.







Found these at a new site.















This one I'm not sure what it's made of. Came out the ground this clean at an old mill site where I found my 1760 Hibernia. Rang up on atpro 56. Any ideas?







Thanks for looking!

 

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[Evolution]

Looks like a tombac button. They all seem to have that clean silver colored look to them. Nice finds!

 

[CRUSADER]

Yeap Tombac

 

[Darby]

Thanks Evolution and Crusader. Any idea on the material? Don't think it's silver.

 

[CRUSADER]

The material is Tombac (google it)

 

[Darby]

Gotcha....thought tombac was the way it was made, didn't realize it was material. Thanks

 

[relicmeister]

Nice finds, Darby

 

[Steve in PA]

Tombac, ball button, and some flats. Looks like you're on a site that may date from the 1790s to maybe as late as 1850. Could be some good stuff there!

 

[vpnavy]

Great finds Darby! Thanks for sharing...

 

[SurfingDigger]

like the buttons....keep diggn it.

 

[flatbutton]

The knife doesn't strike me as being from the same period as the buttons. I'm sure someone here can nail down a time frame on it. Anyways, darn good finds!