Weather was O.K., buttons are great!!!

[mooncalfmetal]

Went out late afternoon on Saturday and Sunday. Only had about an hour and half to hunt with good light! Decided to go and hit up a new cellar hole on the way to my other cellar hole on Saturday. This one is mostly in a field, witch I've never hunted in one much. There is a tone of iron out there and my 1895 map shows a house at this location. So I start swinging all crazy like walking pretty fast and boom I gite this great high coin tone from the ace. Out pops and harness ring. Well that's what I needed to find to slow me down, as up to that point I had no signals at all. So after that I start my "normal" hunt (nice and slow, over lapped swings) and not 5 more feet from the ring I get a solid dime on the ace at 4 inch's. Oh, yea baby is all thats goin threw my brain. Then in the hole I see something round 'bout the size of a quarter. OH, YEA. pick it up and rub it a bit. A button, HECK YEA. In the pocket!! Went on for a bit and heard gun shots off in the direction of my truck. Well Poop! I walk over to were I can see the truck and don't see any other vehicles, I doubt I could have made it there any ways if there was a vehicle there, so back to detecting. Turn the ace back on and right away good iffy signal and out of the hole pops a flattened thimble, That says "BUY I-H FLOUR", oh it's aluminium by the way. After that I was good as my fingers was really cold.
Sunday I went back and right away found the strange eagle button that I hope is civil war!!!! Then after diggin some real good sounding nails and bits of wire, I finely git a better sound. Start my hole standing up and checked the hole, still in there. Down to the knees to dig and wouldn't you know it the first plunge of the shovel snap. Cut the head phone wire right in two!! Son of aOh meatel detecting forum ....Now I have to use no phones to finish my hole!! The ace sounded strange with no phones!! I always use phones!!. Well, I deal with it and found my target, a suspender part( the back part, were it goes from two to one??).

Pics=
1,2= First button( has a deer or stag and some gilt left, the backmark is one I've never seen and I can't find online)
3,4= Thimble
5= Eagle button( eagle faces left with arrows in left talon, olive branch in right talon, "I" in shield) All the other buttons I've looked at online have a left facing eagle with the arrows in the right talon!! Would like more info on this variety. blank back except for a ring
6= Suspender part

[Patton]

All the buttons are very nice, but that Eagle button is Awesome! Nice finds!

[Digger657]

Nice finds, sorry about the headphones.

[MoBob]

Looks like you've happened upon some CW items , I'd go back and hunt that area somemore the eagle button is a CW infantry button , nice job . The other button and suspender buckle are also of the period ! Congrats

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

nice button! pretty interesting with the reversed olive branch & arrows

[mooncalfmetal]

I've looked at dozens and dozens of web sites but I just can't find one with the olive branch on the right. Not a single one. Whats up with that?

After some closer inspecting of the deer button. Ther is a "B & " just under the horn on the back and what to me looks like some letters around the shank.

[PAdiggerTom]

Your button is probably going to be spanish american war

[mooncalfmetal]

PadiggerTom = I've look around the net and the only eagle buttons I was able to find still have the arrows on the right not the LEFT, as mine does.

I've also read the legend about the "rotating head" of the eagle. i.e. head faces the arrows during war time, but my eagle faces the same way all others do. Its just the olive branch and arrows are switched!

And what manufacture made buttons with just a ring as the backmark? I've seen the ??relicman?? web site and on there, they show a pic of four backs and just say "northern manufacture".