✅ SOLVED button date based on shank

[mountainman 2]

I found this small cent size button last Saturday. The other was a large coat button. I thought the shank was unusual, i haven't dug one like it before. The material might be pewter but not sure. Can anyone give me an idea of the period it was made? Thanks in advance. MM2

 

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[DCMatt]

Start with this. Yours looks like 1760 - 1785. Of course, these are ballpark years...

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

I agree with Matt, a late-18thc cast pewter button with what looks to be a brass ring through the eye loop.
Is there anything on the face or is it blank?
Dave

 

[smokeythecat]

I also concur. It's nice to dig an oldie for sure.

 

[mountainman 2]

Thanks for the replies. The front is plain. I've been searching this property for 20 years, still pulling stuff out of it. A couple of hundred acres, that little button was hiding out.

 

[CRUSADER]

Agreed 18th C but to me it looks like a home made one, the pewter looks like its closer to a pure Lead, so some kind of heavy lead-alloy. The shank doesn't look like the normal manufacturing of these.