where there were few or no Civil War battles fought? Or… what about if where you are located in the U.S. If you were to take a guess, what would you say is the biggest obstacle that is preventing you from finding great Civil War (or any of our other wars) properties to metal detect? He and his hunt buddy immediately began finding late 1700’s and early 1800’s brass and pewter buttons all over one corner of it… the site had never been hunted before. Despite that ignorant Ebay seller's awful misindentifiction of those objects as being civil war era, the two World War One collar-insignia discs for the Signal Corps are much rarer than Infantry stuff, so they are worth more than the $25 you paid for all the false "civil war buttons.The author decided to “cold turkey” hunt this big soybean field near a prominent creek with known Civil War activity nearby. They are so common in Virginia that they sell for $1 to $2.īut don't feel too badly. We dig lots of that kind of plain-front 1-piece solid brass buttons here in Virginia, and we diggers call them simply an early-1800s flat-button. It is the small plain-faced one, whose back is marked "Rich Gold Colour." (Note the British spelling of the word "color.") It was manufactured in Britain sometime from about 1810 into the late-1830s. There is one 19th-Century era button in your group. But there's a chance that they are the fronts of some kind of European navy buttons. The two thin stamped-sheetbrass buttons with an anchor are front resemble civilian-clothing coat buttons, missing the button's back. For verification, go to the following website and scroll down to "Examples of Bronze Left-sided Collar Discs, Type 1". The two discs showing crossed flags, with a screw-pin on the back, are US Army Signal Corps collar-insignia dics, issued from 1910 to 1924. Same emblem but with a raised border/rim and a " BLACK finish" are from the World War One era. The ones showing an eagle underneath a circle of clouds around a group of stars, but without a raised border/rim at the button's edge, are US Army buttons from 1902 to 1910. In case you'd like more-specific IDs of your buttons:
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