Age and Identification on flat button?

[RiverRat3]

I found this flat button in the same area as multiple other CW relics. I tried cleaning the button but have not been able to read anything on the back. Any help or guesses would be appreciated.

 

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[vayank54]

It's a civilian flat button 1810 -1830 or so. I think I see a ring on the back so it probably had a back mark but I don't know that you will be able to make it out. Buckleboy has a good post on cleaning buttons. you might want to check it out. We dig flat buttons in civil war camps, both US & CS all the time. We find them in later areas too. I dug an 1820's flat button in a logging camp in the same hole with a 1927 penny. I have no doubt that even up into the 1940's, or maybe even later, a person would not have thought twice about pulling an old flat button out of the button tin or box and sewing on some old coveralls.

 

[CRUSADER]

It's a civilian flat button 1810 -1830 or so. I think I see a ring on the back so it probably had a back mark but I don't know that you will be able to make it out. Buckleboy has a good post on cleaning buttons. you might want to check it out. We dig flat buttons in civil war camps, both US & CS all the time. We find them in later areas too. I dug an 1820's flat button in a logging camp in the same hole with a 1927 penny. I have no doubt that even up into the 1940's, or maybe even later, a person would not have thought twice about pulling an old flat button out of the button tin or box and sewing on some old coveralls.

Its past cleaning & pre-CW as you point out (circa 1830)

 

[RiverRat3]

Thanks for everyones input and identification.

 

[BrotherAl]

I just dug one of these today in Pennsylvania. New to the forum, how can I access the cleaning instructions? I can see some letters on the back but can't read them yet.
Thx

 

[Breezie]

I just dug one of these today in Pennsylvania. New to the forum, how can I access the cleaning instructions? I can see some letters on the back but can't read them yet.
Thx

Here ya go:

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/cleaning-preservation/89045-how-clean-buttons.html

WELCOME to the forum! Breezie