Riggler Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 Hello all! This is my first post here. I’m from eastern PA and I am on my 3rd detector and just love this hobby. So I have some challenging buttons here, and a couple of other artifacts. It took me a while to take the pictures and get this together. #1 and 2 I dug on two separate farm sites. #2 is small and was veeeery deep, like 10-11” deep. It has a strange shank that appears to be curled down from the top. I think it’s very old and I want to believe I might see an Eagle in there. You can just make out stars or dots around the edge of it. Badly corroded. I have no idea how to clean these up. I just used an old toothbrush and some water gently, then mineral oil to preserve. I can’t make out the backmark on #1 but it’s gorgeous - civilian?? Age?? #3 I is not dug and I snagged from an Etsy listing I stumbled on. Backmark reads “Feine Qual”, and there is a little paint remaining in the stripes on the front shield! 4 (broken) and 5-6 are large and small flat buttons from the farm site. 4 has a backmark I can’t make out, this one has brownish rust... 7-8 A musketball and minie ball??? Any ideas as to age??! I’m thinking 1850ish but I’m not an expert! Thanks for any information on these, and happy hunting! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardtimehermit Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 I think # 3 is from the Waterbury company, look them up. It's a real beauty, nice hunting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggler Posted March 14, 2020 Author Share Posted March 14, 2020 15 minutes ago, Hardtimehermit said: I think # 3 is from the Waterbury company, look them up. It's a real beauty, nice hunting. Thank you!! I will start googling! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggler Posted March 16, 2020 Author Share Posted March 16, 2020 On 3/14/2020 at 12:20 PM, Hardtimehermit said: I think # 3 is from the Waterbury company, look them up. It's a real beauty, nice hunting. The only thing is I can’t find a Waterbury with a backmark of Feine Qual. What makes you think it is a Waterbury? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardtimehermit Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 By the way the button was constructed, is why i thought Waterbury. but i didn't notice the backmark, any luck looking up Feine Qual? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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