1-31-10 Wendell Evans, {That sneaky %#@*! Son Of a ...... Gun } of
Rogers, Arkansas, recently snuck out without any of his digging buddies,
and had some luck ! . . lol . . Detecting an ancient cabin site, not far from
what looks like a Civil War Period road, he came away with a pair of nice
buttons. One was a 1-piece flower button, still retaining a large amount
of gilt, and it's shank. The other turned out to be a ca. 1830s 1-piece New
York Militia Button, also retaining it's shank, and with a cool backmark
of "Imperial Standard Superb." Really, Wendell that sneaking out
like that, is not good for your health ! Congratulations though !!
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| Wendell Evan's Pair of Nice, Early Buttons |
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| Reverse of Wendell Evan's Pair of super early buttons. |
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| 1-31-10 Gordon McCain of Fayetteville, Arkansas, reports that he
recently/finally hit good sign in his quest for a small Confederate
Cavalry Camp. First signs were mostly small caliber round balls,
some miscellaneous brass, and a few 3-Ringers. Among the three
ringers though was this one, that is quite different. A .54 caliber
example, if it's a Georgia Teat-Base, it's got the biggest teat I ever
saw ! Whatever it is, I'll take a dozen of em" ! Congratulations
Gordon !
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| Gordon McCain's unusual very high teat-base .54 bullet . |
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| Cavity of Gordon McCain's extremely high teat, teat base bullet. |
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| 1-31-10 Matt Longwith, of Cane Hill, Arkansas, was going thru his
recently recovered bullet box not too long ago, and pulled out this
little beauty ! It's one of those primarily Arkansas recovered examples,
that Meigs Brainard first mentioned in his North/South Trader article
entitled, War In The West Yields Rare Bullets. [July/August, 1987,
p. 19] Tom Stelma recently covered a couple of examples in his
book, Some Civil War Bullets, also. [ p. 251] It's an approximately
.577 caliber 4-ringer bullet, with a variant plug base cavity !! Dang,
let me repeat myself, I'll take a dozen of those !! Congratulations
Matt !!
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| Matt Longwith's dropped Arkansas 4-Ringer Bullet |
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| Plug Base Cavity of Matt Longwith's Arkansas 4-Ringer Bullet |
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