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milco
04-28-2014, 09:28 PM
These buttons are from a site my uncle and I are pursuing to MDetect. These buttons were dug out of the ground at two excavation sites on this property.
Please help me with a date if you can from what is pictured. This site had possible military activity as early as the 1820's.
Thanks!
Darren do any of these buttons have back mark names on them ?? (sorry my eyes aren't what they use to be :yes:) the two outside ones look like 1-piece buttons which suggest older types and the middle one looks like a smashed two piece.
1-piece with brazed or soldered shanks were used from very early on to "about" 1830's to 50's , that is when the two piece thin brass backs started showing up here in America , they were a bit earlier on the scene in England.
Bell-Two
05-02-2014, 04:28 PM
Nice buttons I think that spot will give you more!
giant056
05-02-2014, 05:57 PM
If I was diggin buttons like that I'd definitely be going back to that spot :grin:
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