NJ button

[ticm]

I posted this in the wrong section Sorry about that. Any ideas of that button Age?,National guard? Thanks


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[TheCannonballGuy]

Definitely a New Jersey National Guard button. You've got the Infantryman's version -- there were other versions, for NJ NG Cavalrymen, for Artillerymen, and even a NJ NG Hospital Corps button. Your button is from no earlier than the Indian Wars era (1866-1897). To give you a narrower date-range than that, we'll need to see a good close-up photo of its back, because there are many time-period variations in "Scovill M'fg Co. Waterbury" backmarks.

[Don in SJ]

I found the same button eons ago, I just looked at my backmark and with no symbols between any of the words, other than the apostrophe for MF'G and a period after CO. and the larger lettering and only a dotted inner circle matches the 1880-1900 period for a Scovill button.

Don

[ticm]

Thanks guy and Don Don that is just the way mine looks Thanks for the help