Any thoughts on this button?

[Breezie]

I found this button last week in an area that has yielded finds from the Rev. War up to the 1920s. The backmark is unreadable, but it is marked. Any thoughts? Thanks, Breezie

 

[creskol]

It's a civilian button, and the design is called Basket Weave. Hard to tell how old it is, but they go back at least as far as the Civil War. However, the design is still popular today.

 

[CRUSADER]

It's a civilian button, and the design is called Basket Weave. Hard to tell how old it is, but they go back at least as far as the Civil War. However, the design is still popular today.

looks like steel back, so post 1900.

 

[creskol]

It's a civilian button, and the design is called Basket Weave. Hard to tell how old it is, but they go back at least as far as the Civil War. However, the design is still popular today.

looks like steel back, so post 1900.

Agreed .. Good point Crusader!

 

[Breezie]

Thanks gang for the info. After reading the post, I put a green check, but after doing some research on 'basket weave,' I don't know if this pattern is BW or not. On all of the BW buttons I saw, the pattern was 'over & under.' This one is more like squares beside each other with nothing 'weaving.' Any more thoughts? Breezie

 

[creskol]

Thanks gang for the info. After reading the post, I put a green check, but after doing some research on 'basket weave,' I don't know if this pattern is BW or not. On all of the BW buttons I saw, the pattern was 'over & under.' This one is more like squares beside each other with nothing 'weaving.' Any more thoughts? Breezie

I think generically they are referred to as Basket Weave. Within that range, there are many variations, and I am pretty sure your button would fall in there somewhere. I looks like yours has an over/under weave pattern to it, maybe no so much in the squares,but definitely in the threads.

 

[Breezie]

It's a civilian button, and the design is called Basket Weave. Hard to tell how old it is, but they go back at least as far as the Civil War. However, the design is still popular today.

Creskol, you're on a roll! After cleaning the button and studying a little more, I do see the basketweave. I think it was optical illusion at first to me in that all I could see was a checkerboard. It is quite interesting in that to make the basketweave effect, every other nib is from portrait to landscape. Thanks again Crusader & Creskol. Breezie