Bucket list find

[no_limits]

Found this flat button today first one I ever found didn't know if there's a way to know how old it is.

 

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[trapperart]

Congrats on your first

 

[CASPER-2]

i'd say early 1800s

 

[DigIron2]

Sometimes can go by size of a flat button for a approx. date. I use the rule that if the flat button is roughly around the size of a half dollar it pre-dates the early to mid 1790's. If it is roughly the size of a nickel it is probably somewhere between mid 1790's to approx. mid 1840's. Like psexton 1967 mentioned the back mark should narrow it down for you. congratulations.

 

[Kurios1]

Congrats on your first flat button. I dug one today as well and love it.I love buttons and especially ones with stamping you can make out to do the research on. Get ya' some more!

 

[CRUSADER]

Circa 1830.

 

[JerseyDigger19]

I see BENEDICT, one of the more prolific button makers from Waterbury, CT. Not sure if it's a plain Benedict or his later gig with Benedict & Burnham but 1830 is just about right.

 

[scruggs]

Very nice!

 

[basque-man]

Very cool and congrats!!!! Certainly looks OLD!!!!

 

[trdking]

When I started swingin I put a Pop top on my bucket list. Got my first bucket list find in about 45 seconds!!! Nice score

 

[HighVDI]

When I started swingin I put a Pop top on my bucket list. Got my first bucket list find in about 45 seconds!!! Nice score

Still searching for that elusive pull tab?

Congrats OP

 

[nhbenz]

Just due to the spacing of the words I would guess it to be an "A. Benedict" backmark, 1823-1829. Either way, we all agree of the approximate age.

 

[Scrappy]

Circa 1830.

X2.

And contrary to another member's suggestion that a button can be dated by size, it cannot.

 

[against the wind]

Congrats on your first flat button.

 

[DigIron2]

X2.

And contrary to another member's suggestion that a button can be dated by size, it cannot.

Just going by something I read awhile back. In the early 1790's American manufactured coat buttons went from roughly the size of a half dollar to roughly the size of a nickel.

 

[gold panner]

Congrats on your first!

 

[LPN1]

Love finding them flat buttons congrats!

 

[sutphin]

NICE FIND...