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Two eagle cannon "corps" buttons now ??

More finds from the "Artillery sites" , these were a group early homesteads not terribly far from an American fort and from all the recent artillery , light artillery type buttons many must of been enlisted there. Five of us made the hike in and even though we were forced to leave a bit early...

Same hunt with Donnie B and HEAVYMETALNUT (Dave) great mild December day with good company , the Deus will sure smell out those smaller cuff sized buttons in mineralized ground. This particular spot where we found them have been detected but as many as a dozen other machines and there is some...

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Thank you sir ! I've been waiting on a find as this ! :thumbsup01: me too Jeff , thanks Yes his name is Ron Yingling i was out with him and his twin Brother Rick , we all swing the Deus and we all did pretty well for only a few hours hunt. I was using Calabash Digger's pitch program...

Sunday i was only afforded a few hours out to play in the woods , to check out a possible site and maybe hit a couple older "hammered out" sites with a new deus program for the heavy iron . Well the "possible site" wasn't anything but i did hit a coin spill in the woods (2 indians 1863 , 1881...

Ooops ! well best "coin silver" , silver coin same difference yes ?

there are a few varieties if the 74 but you may need to take a few more pictures , the more i look at it the more it looks different to this one

yes its true …. more info to follow .

Last Sunday and the Wednesday before I had the opportunity to try out the deus on some hard hit cellar sites . Wednesday the 29th of April me and a couple of brothers (Rick & Ron ) got out for a couple of hours after work to hit a couple of hard hit cellar holes , Ron had just gotten a deus...

Yesterday Donnie Ron and myself headed out to the woods to hit some well known sites and check on a couple of possible cabin sites . The weather was about perfect springtime temps , hiking is always good this time of year and I could use the exercise . On this particular excursion I had brought...

These are often decorations on antique horse drawn sleighs

My advice would be to let the brass buckle dry out for a few days and see if its surface starts to chip and flake loose on its own . this will make your job so much easier to remove the rest of the crusty dirt from the brass. Its usually what happens before I start . this picture is of one of...

Our very own Lodge Scent has long I MEAN INSPIRED me to focus my detecting prowess on capturing the market on all the shoe buckles in the land ! Well at least in Connecticut ! Challenge accepted Jeff :lol::lol::lolsign: Yesterday (Sunday) was chilly in the morning but overall still very...

You are funny Jeff :lol: . The item I believe is a large kepi "button" or decoration insignia on a Shako helmet , they came in a few motifs (eagles in a couple of poses , stars , "blazed" cannon balls) here are a couple of different shako hats from the 1830's and 40's both have your kepi button...

Well the first few hunts of the new year have been good ! The temps here in Connecticut have been well above average (with the exceptions of the last week or so) and have been out three times already !:happy: January 1st Donnie and I got out with a couple good friends (twin brothers Rick & Ron)...

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