My Relic Hunting Reference Library

[John M]

Here are some of my links I have accumulated through the years of relic hunting. I hope that they may be useful. Some may have already been posted.

Buttons & Buckles

• [li]Common Button Back Marks[/li]
  [li]Button and Badge Makers[/li]
  [li]Button Makers and Their Backmarks[/li]
  [li]Military Artifacts of The Spanish Mission Period[/li]
  [li]American War of 1812 Uniform Military Buttons[/li]
  [li]Button PDF Document[/li]
  [li]British-made Uniform Buttons[/li]
  [li]The Civil War Relicman[/li]
  [li]Shoe Buckles[/li]
  [li]American Military Uniform Button Manufacture Date Guide[/li]
  [li]Buckles Through The Ages[/li]
  [li]George Washington Inaugural Button Collection[/li]

Coins & Tokens

• [li]Early British Tokens[/li]
  [li]CoinFacts[/li]
  [li]Numismatic Conservation Services[/li]
  [li]The Coins of Colonial and Early America[/li]
  [li]Spanish Colonial Silver Reales[/li]
  [li]Irish Coinage[/li]
  [li]Coins of England and Great Britain[/li]
  [li]The Maria Theresa Thaler [/li]
  [li]Token Catalog[/li]
  [li]Copper Grading Guide[/li]
  [li]Types of Spanish Coins[/li]
  [li]Colonial Coin Collectors Club[/li]
  [li]Alan S Fisher Hard Times Token Cllection[/li]
  [li]The Virtual Coin & Token Library[/li]

Silver Makers & Hallmarks

• [li]Silver Marks, Hallmarks & Makers' Marks[/li]
  [li]Online Encyclopedia of American Silver Marks[/li]
  [li]Association of Small Collectors of Antique Silver[/li]
  [li]English Electroplate Silver[/li]
  [li]Antique Silver Spoons[/li]
  [li]Silver Marks[/li]

Bells & Horse Tack

• [li]Crotal Bells[/li]
  [li]Classic Bells[/li]
  [li]The History of Sleigh Bells[/li]
  [li]The Antique Horse Company[/li]
  [li]UK Brasses[/li]
  [li]National Horse Brass Society[/li]

Odds & Ends

• [li]Google Patents[/li]
  [li]Militaria Antiques & Americana[/li]
  [li]Spanish Colonial Military Artifacts[/li]
  [li]Antique Padlocks[/li]
  [li]Lock Museum[/li]
  [li]Lamp Makers[/li]
  [li]Medical and Surgical Antiques Archives[/li]
  [li]Old Copper[/li]
  [li]Firearms PDF Document[/li]
  [li]British Monarchs[/li]
  [li]Knights Templar History[/li]
  [li]Colonial Williamsburg[/li]
  [li]Defunct Amusement Parks[/li]
  [li]Army Uniform History PDF Document[/li]
  [li]U.S.A Military Medals[/li]

[coinnut]

That's like the Mother Load of links lol Thanks a lot for posting all those research areas. And I thought all this time you had all that information memorized I bet it took quite a while to gather them up. We really appreciate you sharing them with us. Thanks John. thumbsup01

[RickO]

Thanks John, that is a treasure trove of links. RickO

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

cool! thanks John! thumbsup01

[handyman]

Wow thats some list of links. I will have to take use of some of them. Great post

[tanacat]

Thanks! Looking up my Navy button now

[zrickkid]

Great links they should come in handy some day if I ever find anything of note.

[rsarge1]

very nice i just open one of them and found some new places to hunt very useful info ty thumbsup01 thumbsup01

[pulltabsteve]

Great assortment of reference links! Thanks

[Carver]

WOW!!! That's the Motherlode!!!! <: <: <:

[tanacat]

This is a great resource... Thanks again John!

[swamp yankee]

Here are some of my links I have accumulated through the years of relic hunting. I hope that they may be useful. Some may have already been posted.

Buttons & Buckles

• [li]Common Button Back Marks[/li]
  [li]Button and Badge Makers[/li]
  [li]Button Makers and Their Backmarks[/li]
  [li]Military Artifacts of The Spanish Mission Period[/li]
  [li]American War of 1812 Uniform Military Buttons[/li]
  [li]Button PDF Document[/li]
  [li]British-made Uniform Buttons[/li]
  [li]The Civil War Relicman[/li]
  [li]Shoe Buckles[/li]
  [li]American Military Uniform Button Manufacture Date Guide[/li]
  [li]Buckles Through The Ages[/li]
  [li]George Washington Inaugural Button Collection[/li]

Coins & Tokens

• [li]Early British Tokens[/li]
  [li]CoinFacts[/li]
  [li]Numismatic Conservation Services[/li]
  [li]The Coins of Colonial and Early America[/li]
  [li]Spanish Colonial Silver Reales[/li]
  [li]Irish Coinage[/li]
  [li]Coins of England and Great Britain[/li]
  [li]The Maria Theresa Thaler [/li]
  [li]Token Catalog[/li]
  [li]Copper Grading Guide[/li]
  [li]Types of Spanish Coins[/li]
  [li]Colonial Coin Collectors Club[/li]
  [li]Alan S Fisher Hard Times Token Cllection[/li]
  [li]The Virtual Coin & Token Library[/li]

Silver Makers & Hallmarks

• [li]Silver Marks, Hallmarks & Makers' Marks[/li]
  [li]Online Encyclopedia of American Silver Marks[/li]
  [li]Association of Small Collectors of Antique Silver[/li]
  [li]English Electroplate Silver[/li]
  [li]Antique Silver Spoons[/li]
  [li]Silver Marks[/li]

Bells & Horse Tack

• [li]Crotal Bells[/li]
  [li]Classic Bells[/li]
  [li]The History of Sleigh Bells[/li]
  [li]The Antique Horse Company[/li]
  [li]UK Brasses[/li]
  [li]National Horse Brass Society[/li]

Odds & Ends

• [li]Google Patents[/li]
  [li]Militaria Antiques & Americana[/li]
  [li]Spanish Colonial Military Artifacts[/li]
  [li]Antique Padlocks[/li]
  [li]Lock Museum[/li]
  [li]Lamp Makers[/li]
  [li]Medical and Surgical Antiques Archives[/li]
  [li]Old Copper[/li]
  [li]Firearms PDF Document[/li]
  [li]British Monarchs[/li]
  [li]Knights Templar History[/li]
  [li]Colonial Williamsburg[/li]
  [li]Defunct Amusement Parks[/li]
  [li]Army Uniform History PDF Document[/li]
  [li]U.S.A Military Medals[/li]

THANKS John! This will save a LOT of G&A finding info on the hobbies' finds,my oldest so far is a 1736 1/2 Real I found in a jewelry store....

[tanacat]

This really is a great resource!



Thanks for all the hard work you put into it John You haven't been around in a few years but hoping you might come back and see this lol

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[robby4570]

MAN!!! Thanks a million for all this info/resources. I am just getting started in relic hunting (water hunt all the time) and this will help me tremendously!

[Digger Don]

Thank you for posting this.
Being new to metal detecting, this is a huge resource of info