Button found in Italy

[Gonzalo]

Goodevening,

i found this button with my metaldetector (see pics in attach)

Can you help me to identificate it?


In the pic i read "WARRANTED FINE" and "GOLD SURFACE"

The other side is flat.



Thank you very much
Best regards

Davide Cristaldi

President of Association of Committes "Two Sicilies"

 

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[kuger]

I dont have a button book in front of to give ya more info,but I can tell you,ya got half of a two piece button

 

[Gonzalo]

thanks for your answer, can you to date the button?Is it english or american?

I dont have a button book in front of to give ya more info,but I can tell you,ya got half of a two piece button

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Gonzalo wrote:
> In the pic i read "WARRANTED FINE" and "GOLD SURFACE"
> The other side is flat.
> Can you to date the button? Is it english or american?

We relic diggers call that type of button simply a flat button. because it has no emblem or design on its front. Flat buttons which have lettering impressed into the button's back begin in approximately the 1790s and were popular into the early 1830s. They lost popularity in the 1840s, when improvements in button making machinery greatly lowered the price of fancy "ornate" buttons (which had an emblem or beautiful design on the front).

During that era, in Britain (and in Britain's colonies, such as America), the word Warranted meant "guaranteed."
The words Gold Surface and Warranted Fine tell the button's "quality" ranking. Here are some examples in the British button quality rankings (from lowest quality to highest quality):
Fine Quality
Extra Quality
Superior Quality
Superfine Quality.

So, because your button's back marking (called a backmark) has the British phrase Warranted Fine, your "flat button" most probably was manufactured in Britain, and was made there sometime between 1800 and 1840.

 

[kuger]

again Cannonball appears to be correct,I swear when I first looked at it,I thought the shank was different.Sorry....wrong again!

 

[vince76]

I found this coins yesterday.

 

[jan nielsen]

1 Bluzger - Gubert - Swiss cantons – Numista I think that the third coin is this one.

 

[jan nielsen]

Coin Value: Italy Milan Soldo 1777 to 1779
The last one is this one.

 

[vince76]

Yes, but mine is mezzo soldo, the half.

 

[vince76]

But i'm very curious to know what the second is!

 

[vince76]

Thanks Jan. Also the second is right. You're so brave!

 

[jan nielsen]

Your welcome Vince, do you think that the second is a coin as well? can you take some better pictures then? maybe it's an Arab coin of some sort.

 

[vince76]

I will try. I can notice some kind of stamp on it but i wiil try with some contrast effects to have a better view[emoji6]

 

[vince76]

Hi Jan, this is it
it looks strange one

 

[jan nielsen]

Yes, it's not a coin. Maybe it's something like horse brass, a thing that goes on a horse's harness.