Anybody know what this is?

[cajun rebel]

 

[bigfoot1]

size referance and photo of reverse required for id,also best guess of metal composition helpful

 

[tennessee digger]

It looks like a rosette but we would have to know the size and see the back. Looks interesting.

 

[CRUSADER]

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/136849-please-read-before-posting-items-what.html
Try read this before you post, it does say you should!

 

[cajun rebel]

It looks like the back may have been iron, not sure. It's made of thin brass. That's all I got for info.

 

[CRUSADER]

OK thanks, it's a modern (20th C) steelback blazer button.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

OK thanks, it's a modern (20th C) steelback blazer button.

I agree. The thin steel back rusted away.

It looks like a blazer button possibly representing the Irish, the E for Erin, like this horse brass. http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/204867-erin-bronze-relic.html

 

[cajun rebel]

Thanks for the info. Sorry about the lack of info. I was still in the field hunting when I posted yesterday.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

It could be 50 years old or older but thin steel backs = fashion button.

 

[groundhogdd]

what u have have is a confedrate button from a engineer coat good find

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Groundhogdd, if it really is a Confederate Engineers button (or any other version of Confederate or US military buttons), then please explain to us why it doesn't appear in ANY button-book which shows Confederate and/or US military buttons.

 

[groundhogdd]

what i meant to say was its off a union coat.during the war the south had little supplys so it was not uncommon for a confed to sew replacement buttons on thier coats.

 

[CRUSADER]

No way is this 19th C, I have seen several posted & I think the pattern is a common Waterbury type.