One piece Virginia button.

Digger70pa

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Cant tell you how many times ive popped out a flat button hoping to see that old virginia seal. Those are quite rare congrats.
 

Your still doing great , IMHO Cleaned or Not the damage ' Pitting ' was already severe . ( It's not bad at all for an almost 200 y/o button ) . Banner in my book .
Later Buddy

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The backside 'almost ' looks like it was made of Pewter . ???
 

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What a GREAT button. Congrats.
 

Damned if you,damned if you don't. Still a beautiful button in my eyes :icon_thumleft:
 

Digger70pa wrote:
>I shouldn't have cleaned it. It looked better dirty.

Digger, find some very-fine-grained mud. Put a bunch of that mud into a small bucket. Fill it halfway with water, and stir up the mud until the water is heavily laden with the fine mud particles. Quickly put your overcleaned button face-up on the mud at the bottom of the muddy water. Let the water evaporate away entirely. (Could take weeks.) when you retrieve your button, it will look a lot like it did when you dug it.
 

Not sure if you washed it or not, but sometimes with extremely fragile buttons, toothpicks and a dry toothbrush is best as sometimes water can greatly affect and wash away much detail in a fragile button that is already in the process of deterioration. Still it's a great button find no matter what and better than mine as I've never found a Virginia one-piece.
 

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