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Hand made Button from shell... - 6/23/2010 5:25:10 PM   
Grampy Green Jeans


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Status: offline 		Found this in the pit i was digging under my porch. (Had the post under "Digging Finding")
    Hard to believe some thing can clean up like this, from what it looked like coming out of the ground! Looks like inside of an oyster shell? Has the pretty (rainbows) of color like u find in some shells interior. Well carved, I might b able 2 do this w/ a modern drill, but i doubt it... And th back looks like the outer portion of the shell.
      Smalls seem to be my more interesting finds lately.





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RE: Hand made Button from shell... - 6/23/2010 5:27:24 PM   
Grampy Green Jeans


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Status: offline 		Back...  Love saying this.. again.. Not from Wal mart! 




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RE: Hand made Button from shell... - 6/23/2010 6:39:36 PM   
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From: Northwestern Pa. (Near scenic Lake Perfidy)
Status: online 		That's unique and very beautiful,....My wife will love that!, very cool find.           Joe

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RE: Hand made Button from shell... - 6/23/2010 6:51:21 PM   
Grampy Green Jeans


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Status: offline 		Oh yes... the little woman , is trying to incorporate the button into some of her knitting...
  That is a decent photo of it, though does not show the rainbow patina that shell has well.
       trying to get the mojo going to head down to an embankment farm dump... major mosquitoes but won't find much if i just sit here... so bug spray and Bug Baffler coat And an hour of daylight ...

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RE: Hand made Button from shell... - 6/23/2010 6:51:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		Nice!  Yeah, they were made from clams and oysters.  I've found some tiny ones in privies, but they crumbled once I picked them up. 

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RE: Hand made Button from shell... - 6/23/2010 6:54:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yeah, I got bitten pretty badly last night while watering the garden.  Today, Joe said, "What happened to your eye?  The bites on my face made it swell.  As soon as I can it, I am going to get some natural Repel, which contains lemon and oil of eucalyptus.  No other natural things seem to work for me.  I hate to spray on a bunch of chemicals just to go outside for a few minutes.

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RE: Hand made Button from shell... - 6/23/2010 6:57:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		 Here is a very interesting page for you and your wife: http://www.karipearls.com/pearl-clamming.html

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RE: Hand made Button from shell... - 6/24/2010 12:16:17 AM   
Grampy Green Jeans


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Status: offline 		So I did run down there for a bit. I hate bug spay 2, i don't spray on my skin. Thick on my cloths though. Also have a screen bug jacket called the Bug Baffler. Works great w/ a baseball cap. Could not c well, getting dark, only thing i brought home was the stopper in the bottom right of the pic.




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RE: Hand made Button from shell... - 6/24/2010 7:55:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		That button is amazing....There was so many things they did back then...creatively handmade and ever so intricate and unique.  You never find things like that now days....I have had buttons not last 2 months....and thats ones been around for a hundred plus some probably!

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