Louisiana Pelican button

[ACobra289]

Hi all.

I found this last year along the wood line of a modern school yard where an old home once stood. My digging buddy found a beautiful US belt plate there. (That one still hurts that I missed it. ) We hit it pretty hard after he found the plate. I found the button a week or so later and that was it for CW finds there.

I wish it wasn't smashed, but at least it's complete! Thanks for looking.

 

[UCVRelics]

Very Nice one. The "Extra Rich" tells me it was a early war British import.

 

[ACobra289]

Very Nice one. The "Extra Rich" tells me it was a early war British import.

Thank you! I don't know much about the back mark.

 

[captaindrew]

Nice!

 

[major bill]

Very nice button.

 

[donna]

It is nice. I like buttons and have several.

 

[JOHN42768]

Welcome, enjoy. Great find

 

[BillH]

Excellent find. One of my favorite buttons.

 

[ACobra289]

Thanks everyone!

 

[Package4]

Hi all.

I found this last year along the wood line of a modern school yard where an old home once stood. My digging buddy found a beautiful US belt plate there. (That one still hurts that I missed it. ) We hit it pretty hard after he found the plate. I found the button a week or so later and that was it for CW finds there.

I wish it wasn't smashed, but at least it's complete! Thanks for looking.

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In the end you got the better of the deal, pushes and all.......congratulation!

 

[ACobra289]

In the end you got the better of the deal, pushes and all.......congratulation!

Do you really think so? I admittedly don't know a lot about CW relics, but I always thought plates were at the top of the want lists.

Here is a pic of the one he found. He did a good job getting it out of the ground without doing any damage to it. I probably would have mangled it.

 

[Tom Hughes]

That's a really nice button! Congrats

 

[Package4]

Do you really think so? I admittedly don't know a lot about CW relics, but I always thought plates were at the top of the want lists.

Here is a pic of the one he found. He did a good job getting it out of the ground without doing any damage to it. I probably would have mangled it.

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Your button is worth twice that Federal plate!

 

[Rusk County Avengers]

Love that button, I wish someone made a good reproduction of it.

 

[ACobra289]

Your button is worth twice that Federal plate!

I would have never thought that. Especially in the condition its in.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

Hi all.

I found this last year along the wood line of a modern school yard where an old home once stood. My digging buddy found a beautiful US belt plate there. (That one still hurts that I missed it. ) We hit it pretty hard after he found the plate. I found the button a week or so later and that was it for CW finds there.

I wish it wasn't smashed, but at least it's complete! Thanks for looking.

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You do realize how lucky you are to find a Louisiana Pelican button?

 

[3rd North Carolina]

nice

 

[Woods-walker]

Very nice find! That's one I ve always wanted to find but it's managed to escape my machine and shovel.
I once read an amusing story , that as memory serves me , went like this.....
During the southern march into Maryland in 1862, and in spite of orders forbidden pillaging, some Mississippi boys entered a local merchants store and begin to help themselves to the merchandise. When the owner began to complain, one Mississippian replied "if you think we're bad, the Louisiana boys are on the road directly behind us"

 

[UCVRelics]

Do you really think so? I admittedly don't know a lot about CW relics, but I always thought plates were at the top of the want lists.

Here is a pic of the one he found. He did a good job getting it out of the ground without doing any damage to it. I probably would have mangled it.

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I will take a CS button over a yankee plate any day

 

[PrivateBrooke]

That's a nice button.