Presidential Campaign button

[laplander]

I pulled this one out of a pasture in north west Missouri next to some limestone foundations Monday.
In 1848 ole "rough and Ready" Zachary Taylor ran on the Whig ticket. He was the first president elected with out serving in a prior political office. This specimen and other styles of buttons were used for campaign proposes. This is one of the larger diameter buttons with a RV 50 in Alberts button book. Mother nature has taken its toll with lots of corrosion.
HH Jeff

 

[IowaRelic]

Super awesome button find!! Midwest pasture with limestone foundations. Ohhh you speak my language

 

[Mark kus]

Really cool find Jeff a guy I know found a GW button here in CT I became friends with we met in a town I was detecting.
Mark

 

[laplander]

Super awesome button find!! Midwest pasture with limestone foundations. Ohhh you speak my language

I was one of those locations that would have been hard to spot without the farmers help.

 

[laplander]

Really cool find Jeff a guy I know found a GW button here in CT I became friends with we met in a town I was detecting.
Mark

Thanks Mark, this is as close to a GW as I will probably get here in the mid west!

 

[floodplaindetector]

Jeff, That is a heck of a good find. Nothing like pulling something like that at some isolated spot.
I hunted right on the Missouri border a little this spring as my brother lives in the Omaha area.
Well done!
Dave

 

[GA1dad]

Neat find,, love it!!

 

[bootyhoundpa]

Awesomelyawesome.. very cool find.....

 

[okierebel]

Yeah what booty said x2!! Really nice!!

 

[Coinboy007]

Dang! That’s freaking awesome congrats! You motivated an Iowa boy here to get out there!

 

[Boxcarwilly]

Awesome piece of history!

 

[miserman]

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Thanks for posting. I found one several years ago and was never able to ID it. The one I found is slightly larger than nickel size (24mm). It's nice to finally get an ID on it. Thanks and nice find!

 

[Dale(Ia)]

Now, that's a "rare" one!
Congrat's, Jeff!!

Iowa Dale

 

[laplander]

Jeff, That is a heck of a good find. Nothing like pulling something like that at some isolated spot.
I hunted right on the Missouri border a little this spring as my brother lives in the Omaha area.
Well done!
Dave

Thanks Dave! It definitely wasn't the good old days, we only dug 3 non ferrous targets. It's funny how if you go west the finds tend to get older because of the Missouri river was a transportation hub. We were on the 102 river east of St. Joe.

 

[laplander]

Neat find,, love it!!

thanks a lot I was shocked to see any thing at all.

 

[laplander]

Dang! That’s freaking awesome congrats! You motivated an Iowa boy here to get out there!

Take advantage of the weather the ground will frozen soon enough

 

[laplander]

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Thanks for posting. I found one several years ago and was never able to ID it. The one I found is slightly larger than nickel size (24mm). It's nice to finally get an ID on it. Thanks and nice find!

Thanks Miserman
Post a picture if you want me to find it in Alberts button book, there are 4 pages of different varieties!

 

[miserman]

Thanks Miserman
Post a picture if you want me to find it in Alberts button book, there are 4 pages of different varieties!

Here's a photo of the one I found.

 

[laplander]

Here's a photo of the one I found.

I would venture to say it is exactly the same. I think yours is in better shape Nice find!

 

[miserman]

I would venture to say it is exactly the same. I think yours is in better shape Nice find!

Thanks laplander. It was found in Indiana.