Yahoo! Found my first foliated script I button!!!

[ksdigger]

Saturday morning started out like this and boy did it snow!

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Sleet lasted for about an hour but then turned to snow, thank goodness! Stayed warm and dry all day long after the sleet. Was working a field adjacent to where I located an old fur trade site two weeks ago. First iron hit was this...a flintlock sideplate mechanism.

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The find of the day was this...my very first foliated script I infantry button!!!

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Here is everything found in the snowstorm. Also found a silver medallion that was found in several pieces.

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Here is the silver jesuit religious medallion found in pieces...but it's old!

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Closeup of script I infantry button. Below the "I" is an oval circle with star, sometimes they would put a regiments number in this oval circle but mine has a star. This button dates 1812-1815!!! Yahoooo!!!

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Thanks for looking and ya'll have a great week!

 

[cw_relic_hunter]

Very Nice button congrats on a great find

 

[Lizardchaser]

Congrats Steve on tuffin it out and finding some nice relics! Thats a great button.
I like to hunt with an inch or two of snow you can see your grid. Still looking for my first sideplate.
We got 12" snow last week and 8" inches this mornin, but it will go quick I hope, make for easy digging.

Good luck upon your return

Nick

 

[ConfCav]

Very nice. I have a couple of percusson sideplates, one with the hammer still attached and the spring is still attached on the inside. Believe it or not it was literally found on top of the ground under the leaves; don't know others could have missed it in a heavily hunted area. The other is has neither and pretty ate up from the pasture/ground action where located.

Ok stupid question here, why is the button referred to as "foliated"? Great button BTW.

 

[ksdigger]

ConfCav,
Not a dumb question at all. The word "foliated" derives from the term foilage or vegatation. If you look real close at the letter on the button you will notice it has a foilage like appearance like grass or weed. There is a historical explaination I'm sure that can be researched to give a better answer but for right now that is my only thought of why they would call it that.

 

[ConfCav]

Thanks KS, makes sense the way you explained it.