Weekend Finds...1812 button!?

[WessThompson]

Well I got out for a couple of hunts this weekend. One yesterday at an old homestead (no longer there) in a plowed field.

The today I hit another old homestead here in Kingston.

My most exciting find was what I believe to be an 1812 British Naval cuff button...but maybe you experts out there will correct me on that!?

I also found an 1857 half penny bank token, an 1887 dime, an 1874 indian head (not pictured), 1899 and 1919 large cents (not pictured), a musketball, a shoe? buckle, and a few other odds and ends. Anyone know what the U-shaped item with the hole drilled in it is!?

Thanks for looking

Wess

 

[Craig in Alabama]

but the picture on the web page doesn't show it well. See what you think. http://www.colchestertreasurehunting.co.uk/militarybuttons.htm

 

[Elson(La)]

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[Mike(PA)]

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[Brian(upstateNY)]

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[WessThompson]

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[WessThompson]

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[WessThompson]

I was actually checking that page earlier. Didn't see anything exactly like it, but some close. I have seen my button somewhere before, just can't remember where exactly!?

Thanks for the reply and help

Wess

 

[copperhead]

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[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[Lawrence in Alabama]

envy!! Great finds as usual

 

[Chris in Hamilton (Canada)]

Its the piece at the end of the stock between the barrel and the ramrod and its called the forend cap.

http://www.gggodwin.com/2n.htm

This might be the button you saw. They're supposed to be a 1793'ish pattern.


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[General Ray]

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