Button Help...

[SFHunter]

Hi Gang,

Found this today in a local park 7 inches down next to a palm tree. I cannot make out the back writing, but it is there, I need to try to clean it up a little bit. The button is 7/8 of an inch across. Anyone tell me what it is, or anyone with better eyes then me make out the back?

Thanks...

 

[PBK]

19th century equestrian / steeplechase sporting button, probably of British manufacture. Although designs of this sort were common in the mid 1800's, similar buttons were still being made in the early 1900's.

 

[romeo-1]

Nice find...I like those old sporting buttons!

 

[Montana Jim]

If you could clean or soak the button and feel comfortable about it... you may get a read on that back mark... I have a good list of british marks too and we should be able to figure something out...