Button Found Today, need ID help

[archaeon]

Howdy Folks! this is the first surface found button i have found. it was on a site that has seen British, Civil War, War of 1812, and Seminole War era stuff. any ideas? Thanks for any help!
Happy Hunting!
Nic (PM's don't work, email at archaeon7@hotmail.com )

 

[CRUSADER]

I guess not British unless its a civilian pattern I haven't seen.

 

[Hill Billy]

Cool find Nic , maybe someone here will be able to help you with ID.
HB

 

[archaeon]

Cool find Nic , maybe someone here will be able to help you with ID.
HB

i sure hope so, it looks old...how you doin HB? when you headed down this a way?

 

[archaeon]

I guess not British unless its a civilian pattern I haven't seen.

im hoping it's Brit.

 

[Don in SJ]

Nice design on the button, but I looked at the backside and right away that type of button reminded me of 20th century buttons, similar to many in use in current times.

I just breezed through Tice's Dating Buttons book looking for any button similar to the back side and found none. I also concentrated on Spanish first, then British, Dutch and German and came up empty.

Someone else might chime in but if that is an old button, I have never seen that style used for the back side. All had shanks of some sort that I could find.

Don

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice design on the button, but I looked at the backside and right away that type of button reminded me of 20th century buttons, similar to many in use in current times.

I just breezed through Tice's Dating Buttons book looking for any button similar to the back side and found none. I also concentrated on Spanish first, then British, Dutch and German and came up empty.

Someone else might chime in but if that is an old button, I have never seen that style used for the back side. All had shanks of some sort that I could find.

Don

Exactly, & if British, I would at least have an example of that reverse, which I don't.

 

[Hill Billy]

Now that I look at it a little more,it seems to me to look like a modified Hersheys Kiss.You wouldn't be trying to pull one over on us would you?LOL
Not sure about my return down south ,hopefully soon.I will be getting in touch with you and Tom when I come ,you can count on it.

 

[archaeon]

Nice design on the button, but I looked at the backside and right away that type of button reminded me of 20th century buttons, similar to many in use in current times.

I just breezed through Tice's Dating Buttons book looking for any button similar to the back side and found none. I also concentrated on Spanish first, then British, Dutch and German and came up empty.

Someone else might chime in but if that is an old button, I have never seen that style used for the back side. All had shanks of some sort that I could find.

Don

i know what you mean, i have never seen a back like it either...it is a two piece. i thought modern when i saw the back...

 

[archaeon]

Now that I look at it a little more,it seems to me to look like a modified Hersheys Kiss.You wouldn't be trying to pull one over on us would you?LOL
Not sure about my return down south ,hopefully soon.I will be getting in touch with you and Tom when I come ,you can count on it.

no, haha, not a hersheys kiss! well, i look forward to when yoou can make it.

 

[BuckleBoy]

This one is not a style of button that I've seen before...


I'll keep looking.

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

modified Hersheys Kiss
Thats good.

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Now that button looks old! nice rake!

 

[archaeon]

Now that button looks old! nice rake!

rake?

 

[Mike_of_Tenn]

I know nothing about buttons (cept the one in my avatar), but IMO it looks Spanish?

Mike

 

[Don in SJ]

I know nothing about buttons (cept the one in my avatar), but IMO it looks Spanish?

Mike

The front may appear to have a Spanish look but, regardless, the backside indicates a modern type and not anything from 18th or probably not even 19th century. Here is most likely a Spanish button and this one is from the 18th century.

Don

 

[archaeon]

I know nothing about buttons (cept the one in my avatar), but IMO it looks Spanish?

Mike

The front may appear to have a Spanish look but, regardless, the backside indicates a modern type and not anything from 18th or probably not even 19th century. Here is most likely a Spanish button and this one is from the 18th century.

Don

yes, the lack of a shank had me thinking modern....has anyone ever seen an old button that did not have a shank?

 

[lostcauses]

platic or rubber, modern, cast in mold also.

 

[archaeon]

platic or rubber, modern, cast in mold also.

no. it is metal, not cast. it is a two piece