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Found this old button........ Need help to identify.. Thanks

Looks like an anchor with a crown on it....of course I'm not telling you anything new.......
Looks to be old, nice find buddy!
Has any sand moved out down there yet? Thinking about coming down for a half day this weekend.
Hope all is well with you Danny,
-Rich
 
Mr. Danny,
I am the curator for the Sommerst Maritime Museum in Sussex. You find interest me very much.
I am certain your button is of the variety used by early English mariners around 1850. In fact, this particular variety was used almost exclusivly on by the Queen's Navy which was sent to the Americas to stop pirating of Her Majesty's ships. For example, Captain Maynard who met up with the infamous Edward Teach (Blackbeard) would have had this button on his and his officers uniforms.
I would value the button, if authentic, at around $1500 US monies.
Hope this helps.
 
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Mr. Danny,
My late night typing is atricous! Please excuse me.
The date in my memo should have been circa. 1650, not 1850.
Captain Maynard served Her Majesty, Elizabeth I, during the latter part of the 17th century, having behead Teach in 1718.
It is generally thought that these uniform buttons were discarded/reissued in the time period of 1750's.
Again, hope this info. is helpful
Jeremy Downing
 
Currently, I am staying on Hatteras Island, North Carolina assisting with maritime details at the new
Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum. Will be here until
Saturday.
 
it is amazing that this button would come out of the ground in such good condition versus the clad coins that last only a few years in the same conditions.
 
So I doubt if anybody in her navy was chasing Blackbeard! I don't recognise the button and the crown looks continental European but I would like to see the back.
Cheers
Fred
ps Don't get your hopes up about the price either
 
Danny if Jeremy will give you $1500 for the button, take it who cares about the details. Good find if you even get half as much.
 
Perhaps you didn't know that Queen Anne was also belovedly referred to as Queen Elizabeth by many of her peers and even the Royal Family.
 
MY OLD BUDDY "PIRATE" HAS THE BUTTON IN HIS CARE. IT IS BEING RESEARCHED AND SOON MAY KNOW IF I CAN RETIRE. ALL THIS INFORMATION IS INTERESTING AND NOW SEAWEED MAY HAVE THE GOLD COIN FROM BLACKBEARD'S TREASURE CHEST AND I HAVE HIS MATE'S BUTTON. KEEP RESEARCHING........... AND THANKS
 
has been farmed since the button was lost. It was unbelievable, the button was pewter the
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.was very readable and it still had the shank.
 
Robert O Bucholz writing for the Journal of British Studies in 1991 noted that she compared herself to Elizabeth and she certainly used the nickname "Mrs Morley" when corresponding with Sarah Churchill but that's as good as it gets. I have never come across any referrence to Queen Anne being known as Elizabeth by anybody and no historian on either side of the pond would ever refer to her as Queen Elizabeth because of the inevitable confusion that it would cause.
I smell seafood <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D">.
Fred
ps How about a link to your museum as I can't find it on Google
 
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