Virginia Button One Piece VA Alberts 2a Hometown VA Unit ;-)

[MonkeyBoy]

Virginia Button One Piece VA Albert's 2a Hometown VA Unit ;-)

I went out for about an hour to a spot I have hunted a couple of times.. dug 30 or so bullets there before.. and a nice mix of them too. Well, I was there about 20 minutes when I dug the my first Virginia button in about 10 years!! AND... it is a nice one piece early one.. per Alberts it is a VA 2a.. shank intact and a good backmark " Young Smith & Co New York" I have a few picture of it out of the ground and I am soaking it now..
The other items are a pair of large silver cuff links, I think, all dug in about one foot square at about 8 " or so...

Thanks for looking...

**UPDATE** I went back out, big surprise!!, with really low discrimination and found the remains of the chain to the two silver ovals.. it is a cape pin.. so a Virginia Button and a Cape Pin in pretty much the same hole.. can't beat that!!! I added on more pic with the sections of chain. I also got permission for thr property next door.. since I was digging a nice varity of bullets right up to the fence line.. 3 ringers.. Gardners.. Sharps.. .41 pistols and a few others.. hope to get a few more.. all said and done over 50 bullets.. 4 or 5 Eagle buttons.. the VA and cape pine, 2 coppers and a bunch of early buttons have come out of this spot... not bad

MonkeyBoy

 

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[MonkeyBoy]

Re: Virginia Button One Piece VA 2a

..pics of it cleaned up...

 

[ModernMiner]

Re: Virginia Button One Piece VA 2a

It must be button night on TN?
Very nice finds MB.
That Virginia button is FANTASTIC!!!
Way to go.
-MM-

 

[wildrider]

Re: Virginia Button One Piece VA 2a

Super find!
I like it.

 

[Nana40]

Re: Virginia Button One Piece VA 2a

WoW!!! Fantastic button!!! I know that one made your day!!

Congrats on those finds!!! Nana

 

[Iron Patch]

Re: Virginia Button One Piece VA 2a

Yep.. That's a good one!!

 

[crazyjarhead]

Re: Virginia Button One Piece VA 2a

Cleaned up pretty good. Fantastic find

 

[MonkeyBoy]

Re: Virginia Button One Piece VA 2a

That is a very nice example of the early one piece Virginia.

Is it possible that your silver items are cape pins?

That is the first thing I said when I got home and started cleaning them.. one has a clasp and the other what looked like the remains of a little chain.. but it also could have been what was left of the rotted away clasp... so.. cape pin with the button makes more sense...

There was a same engagement between the Virginia unit form my town and some New York boys... just"West" of town.. which describes where I found these items and some bullets.. but hard to say...

MonkeyBoy

 

[MonkeyBoy]

Re: Virginia Button One Piece VA 2a

It must be button night on TN?
Very nice finds MB.
That Virginia button is FANTASTIC!!!
Way to go.
-MM-

Thanks!!
MonkeyBoy

 

[MonkeyBoy]

Re: Virginia Button One Piece VA 2a

Super find!
I like it.

Thanks!! It's a 15 acre low cut field too... hmm..wonder where I'll be all week!!!

MonkeyBoy

 

[MonkeyBoy]

Re: Virginia Button One Piece VA 2a

WoW!!! Fantastic button!!! I know that one made your day!!

Congrats on those finds!!! Nana

Thanks!.. Yep.. took it out unwrapped it and looked at it about.. 10 times before I decided to walk back and put in in my Jeep before I lost it!!

Thanks Again!
MonekyBoy

 

[MonkeyBoy]

Re: Virginia Button One Piece VA 2a

Yep.. That's a good one!!

Thanks!! Only my 4th in 19 years of digging in Northern Virginia!! I have been out and had other people dig 3 of them right next to me!!!! So I was pretty happy having that one pop out...

MonkeyBoy

 

[Iron Patch]

Re: Virginia Button One Piece VA 2a

Yep.. That's a good one!!

Thanks!! Only my 4th in 19 years of digging in Northern Virginia!! I have been out and had other people dig 3 of them right next to me!!!! So I was pretty happy having that one pop out...

MonkeyBoy

CW finds aren't here to find for me but I certainly have seen a lot posted ... so know a 1 piece VA is a good find. Most 1 piece CW buttons tend to be pretty good don't they. Now to dig that one piece VA plate!

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Re: Virginia Button One Piece VA 2a

Congrats on the VA button. It cleaned up surprisingly well!

 

[MonkeyBoy]

Re: Virginia Button One Piece VA 2a

Yep.. That's a good one!!

Thanks!! Only my 4th in 19 years of digging in Northern Virginia!! I have been out and had other people dig 3 of them right next to me!!!! So I was pretty happy having that one pop out...

MonkeyBoy

CW finds aren't here to find for me but I certainly have seen a lot posted ... so know a 1 piece VA is a good find. Most 1 piece CW buttons tend to be pretty good don't they. Now to dig that one piece VA plate!

Ha! Don't think I wasn't thinking that out there yesterday.. Just one... that's all I need!!

MonkeyBoy

 

[MonkeyBoy]

Re: Virginia Button One Piece VA 2a

Congrats on the VA button. It cleaned up surprisingly well!

Thanks... I'll post another pic once I get a couple good coats of wax on it....

MonkeyBoy

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Re: Virginia Button One Piece VA 2a

Gotta love the shank being there. Real nice one.
CurbdiggerCarl

 

[dgaughan]

Re: Virginia Button One Piece VA 2a

sweet button congrats and hh

 

[DCMDer]

Re: Virginia Button One Piece VA 2a

Super button. Congrats.

 

[civilman1]

Re: Virginia Button One Piece VA 2a

Mark that's Awesome Buddy.....Next time you need some help I'll just slip over the Mountain Excellent Dig......I'd Love to see the collection.The cornfield at Sharpsburg still standing