Rev War British 76th Officer button with a little silver plate left :)

[Iron Patch]

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Dug quite a few targets today, but by far the best was this button. I took a walk away from the site down near the river and it was the only thing I found!

 

[owena1]

What a find!


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[del]

:shocked03::shocked05:what a button :notworthyatch it looks gold plated from the picture but am I safe to assume its silver plated ??

 

[Iron Patch]

:shocked03::shocked05:what a button :notworthyatch it looks gold plated from the picture but am I safe to assume its silver plated ??

yep it's silver plate.

 

[del]

that has to be one of the best examples I've seen of that button , you must be ecstatic with that one Patch , again mega congrats sir !!

 

[Cheap Thrills]

:shocked04::shocked03::shocked05:erfect10::congrats:

 

[Pennsylvania Treasures]

That's incredible! Great find!

 

[Isaac]

That's insane!!! Speechless dude

 

[Iron Patch]

And my day just got a little bit better. I dug a pewter which took me several tries to decipher, and finally I got it... Rev War 3rd American - New York Volunteers.

 

[Lodge Scent]

oooooo and ahhhhhhh. I see the "3" and the silver button is a killer.

 

[Digger_O'Dell]

WOW, what a great find! Huge congrats, she's a beauty! erfect10:

 

[aloldstuff]

Great hunt, love that button.......erfect10:

 

[Tony Two-Cent]

What a wonderful piece of history! :notworthy:

That Revolutionary War button is simply breathtaking! :loveit:

erfect10:

 

[Bucknut]

Killer! Congrats on finding history!

 

[chief5709]

:shocked05: unreal :wow: incredible finds! I need to take a better look at some of my pewter buttons. CONGRATS!

 

[OxShoeDrew]

What super shape that 76 is in! :happy:

 

[Iron Patch]

:happy:

That is sort of what my brain did. It's funny the last two finds that gave me a great adrenaline rush I did not discover what I had until I got home.... so I didn't have to deal with the scrambled brain lack of concentration for the next 10 minutes syndrome, like I did with this one. Obviously everything in this hobby is a surprise to some degree, but that one was way off the radar for both thinking it could be a decent possibility, as well as the circumstances of the moment... because it sure seemed like I was in a dead zone of the field, and for the most part I was. I was in this same field briefly over a decade ago, we checked it fast, didn't get much and left... so glad both the button and its great condition waited for me.

 

[RIdirtdigger]

Incredible!

 

[Gaspipe101]

Spectacular

 

[MangoAve]

That's a nice find. I wonder why, tho, it looks like it is two piece from the back. Obvi I found other pics online, and those are more evident. Saw something about the 76th being called MacDonald's Highlanders Started in 1777, but landed in NY in 1779.