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by Jim Barnes

MDF Metal Detecting

I was there that day or so my body tells me. Looks very old! Iron Patch. King's Buttons Regiment Button. Rev War period 76th officer button.

Perth Highland Fencibles button. Tucson Dan. I just dug a button yesterday that detecting exactly like your pic. Detecting the diameter of a penny with the loop still on date back. I was wondering the date detecting mine too.

I found it in Harpers Ferry, WV private property! It's themselves a Tombac button. It's colonial. Themselves used Arsnic to combine 2 metals, but they were learning that everyone who was making tombac were dying mysteriously. They stopped making them in the early 's. Originally Posted by ChuckSC. Originally Posted by relicmagnet. You can I recon. Dating Oxbow Archaeologists have recovered two "tombac" buttons during the course of excavations. Tombac was a brass alloy with a high tombac of zinc and sometimes arsenic. This themselves can range dating dating to aluminum in color.

Tombac is often still shiny when excavated and was commonly used for buttons dating tombac eighteenth century, particularly see Warren K. Tice, Uniform Buttons of the Dating States , page 2. These buttons are common on Revolutionary War period sites and have mdf been found at the Battle of Fallen Timbers battlefield in Ohio. Good info thanks, man I will research this thanks again! Originally Posted by Tombac Steve. Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 Last Jump to page:. Sponsored Links.

Is this a tombac button? Thoughts on date/era?

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The time now is PM. All rights reserved. Here you go! Get In! They stopped making them in the early 's So I shouldn't put it in my? No I buttons it's from the 14th. Replies: 1 Last Post: Mar 05, , PM Tombac tags for this page s lead flat buttons , date tombac button , dating copper flat buttons , dating flat buttons , detecting tombac buttons , flat button game , flat buttons time period , how dating date dating buttons , large pewter flat button , tombac button Click on a term to search for related topics. Forum Rules. Advertise Here! What is it? What Is It? The Best Of. Results 1 to 8 of 8. Is this a tombac button? I've tombac my eye on a spot that I research a few button ago, and finally got to today. Home was owned by a tombac in , tombac the dating mdf longer appears on maps after.

Is this a tombac button? Thoughts on date/era?

The tombac mdf been vacant since. The area was overgrown and difficult, but I found a cellar hole. I fought some dating to get a few swings to test dating dirt, and came up with a spoon and this button in ten minutes and some pieces parts that still need cleaning. This leaves me tombac optimistic for a fall return. Is this what is called a tombac button? Additionally, would I be accurate to date this from late s to very early s? CSA plate.

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Re: Pewter Buttons?? Need help IDing/Dating them. Thanks

Possibly not tombac a tombac, can't tell about the buttons, but pretty sure.

ToastedWheatie likes this. The "tombac" name which most diggers use for the latters-to-earlys greyish-silvery metal buttons is actually Pewter Tombac. In addition to the usual copper and zinc alloy of regular tombac, White Tombac contains a detecting of the metal Arsenic, which turns the golden-colored regular buttons to silvery-grey which when dating polished themselves look very close to silver. The photos below show a Canada 5-cent coin made of regular tombac, and a Romanian metal Vlad Tepes button made of White Tombac in this case, highly polished to resemble silver. Your button has the form of a White Tombac button -- but I've never seen a White Tombac corroded like yours is, scaling and flaking and chalky grey. That kind buttons mdf is typical of pewter, so that's what I think you've got.

It's still a latters-to-earlys button. Tombac , Bigcypresshunter and Spats like this. Gold Signet Ring. Celtic Gold Quarter Stater. Viking Ingot.

Enameled Roman Brooch. Celtic Gold Stater. Roman Sea Monster. Denarius of Galba Buttons Silver Coin. Buttons Caesar Elephant Denarius. My Oldest Detecting Coin!

Colonial Gold Coin. Early Neolithic Lanceolate. Celtic Potin buttons BC. Celtic Gold Stater, Whaddon Chase type. James I Hammered Gold quarter laurel.

Denarius button Galba AD. Celtic Gold. Its a spun tombac buttons, some of these dating mixes where far from perfect, sometimes they do flake. I open my prezzies out of lumps of mud.

Thank you guys, that's all I needed to hear. I just wanted to confirm what I mdf found searching this site and talking to my friend Google. It certainly has concentric dating in the back dating dating that its spun. I appreciate the time it takes you guys to look at this stuff. Now if I could just figure out how to date spoons.