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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??

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#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!

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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...

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7-8 A musketball and minie ball??? Any ideas as to age??! I’m thinking 1850ish but I’m not an expert!

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Thanks for any information on these, and happy hunting!

 

 

 

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I think # 3 is from the Waterbury company, look them up. It's a real beauty, nice hunting.

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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?

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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?

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