Trailer Park Producing Colonial Treasures

[burlington]

So far this site has produced three Colonial Coppers including the 1781 George III in photo. We found two of the buttons with the holes and the last trip produced the decorative button with the gold. There are no markings on the backs of the buttons. Looking for any information on the identidy of the buttons or advice on cleaning the gold button.

 

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[jgas]

Nice finds...Not sure about the buttons though.... jgas

 

[hogge]

Really Nice KG III! Congrats................They usually don't come from the ground that nice! Would love to see the reverse if you could post. Alot of others would love to see it too! Hogge

 

[tymcmurray]

Congratulations!!!
Those a some great finds!

 

[Bridge End Farm]

sweet sweet sweet

can't talk trash about that


congrats on your finds

 

[aa battery]

 

[crazyjarhead]

The trailer park is sitting on some old ground as you can testify by your finds

 

[BuckleBoy]

Incredible finds! I love stories of folks finding Very old items in spots that at first glance seem new.

So, I'd love to hear more of the story about how you found the site there.


In terms of the gold gilded button, it appears that it is as clean as it will get--but you will certainly be able to give the gilding more sparkle with Aluminum Jelly.



Here's a link to a button cleaning post of mine:


http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,165857.0.html




Regards,



Buckleboy

 

[Bob S]

Nice Finds WTG

 

[STH69]

Very cool

 

[John987]

Cool finds!!
HH

John

 

[hikermike]

Hey man......I think I have had those in my hands before Good to see you have joined up
woodspiritcarver said he had a really...really........really bad time down there last weekend. Are you still coming up to york county tuesday for the meeting? Give me a call ....well detect. Here is the pick of the king george I found in the trailer park. Thanks for the opportunity to detect in such an old spot!! There have been a lot of buttons and coins come out of there...not to mention the trigger guard. Those buttons are really sweet!!! The ole XLT did good!! Keep up the good work!

mike

 

[hikermike]

You may want to post the buttons in "what is it "

 

[Colonial Copper Zeus]

So far this site has produced three Colonial Coppers including the 1781 George III in photo. We found two of the buttons with the holes and the last trip produced the decorative button with the gold. There are no markings on the backs of the buttons. Looking for any information on the identidy of the buttons or advice on cleaning the gold button.

Nice KG III. Those buttons are also top notch. I'd be going back.
Chris

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Nice finds!

 

[Detectingfreak]

very nice job on the colonial copper!

 

[carpetbagger]

Hey man......I think I have had those in my hands before Good to see you have joined up
woodspiritcarver said he had a really...really........really bad time down there last weekend. Are you still coming up to york county tuesday for the meeting? Give me a call ....well detect. Here is the pick of the king george I found in the trailer park. Thanks for the opportunity to detect in such an old spot!! There have been a lot of buttons and coins come out of there...not to mention the trigger guard. Those buttons are really sweet!!! The ole XLT did good!! Keep up the good work!

mike

Congrats on the superb finds you guys. The shankmiester will no longer be shankable after Tuesday because I will be retiring the Ace 250 from relic hunting and arming myself with the Tesoro Tejon or hopefully the mac daddy Fisher F-75. So watch out boys.
Jeff K

 

[allen]

great looking colonial coin !!!!

 

[Iron Patch]

Nice Irish and neat buttons. The buttons are as good as they'll get, leave em. All that would happen is you'd strip the green and have a black and gold button.

 

[Iron Patch]

That is cool. Would you care to tell us more about your discovery of the early American artifacts in your trailer park?

The decorative buttons you found are nice examples. The designs on them are relatively intricate.

Maybe there was a trailer park there back in 1805. Except I think they called them "villages" back then.

My first Loyalist buttons were behind one.

You know the ole saying... nothing wrong with a little trailer trash if you're digging Colonial!