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| Find and photo by Dan B. |
Here is a great button found by Dan B. We need your help to identify it. I've done a little research and haven't come up with the ID yet.
As you can see it appears to have a violin and sword on he front.
Very ornate and in very nice condition.
Great find Dan!
Here is a picture of the back of the same button.
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| Find and photo by Dan B. |
I guess his is what you would call a two-piece flat button with a wire shank. Please correct me if I am wrong about any of that.
I haven't found he specific button yet (I am sure one of you will be able to ID it.) but while looking I did find some really great web sites about buttons that I am sure many of you will find useful.
One of the best is buttoncountry.com. It is by the National Button Society, which I did not know about prior to this.
Here is the home page link. http://nationalbuttonsociety.org/Home.html
Here is a link describing a large number of back types. This is a very detailed listing.
http://www.buttoncountry.com/WorkSheets/Glossarys-FF.pdf
And even better, here is a link to a gallery of pictures of back types. Really great!
http://www.buttoncountry.com/BackTypes2.html
As you will see if you browse around, this site is not limited to metal buttons or one type or age of buttons.Here are a couple examples from that section just to show you the kind of thing they have on that web site.
The web site also has a list of links and a bunch of other information. Check it out and browse around.
Here is another button web site link. This one deals with civil war buttons (which I thought Dan's might be.).
http://www.civilwarbuttons.com/cwcol
And here is yet another web site. This one by the Waterbury button company.
http://www.waterburybutton.com/cart/pc/home.asp
Well, I haven't found Dan's button yet, but in the process did find a lot of good web sites. I hope you can find Dan's button for us. We all benefit from helping each other.
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Here is a nice article about some of the intricate gold work found on artifacts associated with Stone Henge. They conclude that it is so small and intricate that it could have only been done by children working on the task.
Take a look.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/stonehenges-most-intricate-archaeological-finds-were-probably-made-by-children-9738993.html
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I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Many people are alone or far from friends and family, and other families have more than their fair share of troubles and conflict. Be thankful for what you do have and focus on that and sharing with the less fortunate. May your troubles be light and your blessings many.
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On the Treasure Coast the wind on Friday will be from the North while the surf is around three feet.
For next Friday they are now predicting somewhere around six foot seas.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@Comcast.net
