✅ SOLVED Button ID and age

[trapperart]

Found this today, can anyone help with information? Thanks Art

 

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[nhbenz]

1820's ballpark I believe. I think it reads Rich Colour on the back, indicating its British. There's words around the ship on the front it would sure help to be able to read, but I'm not the best one to weigh in on which cleaning method to use.

 

[can]

nice find

 

[BARKER]

Hi; It is a 1 piece button which means it is older than 1820. The ! piece button was virtually extinct with few exceptions by 1820. I believe it may be pewter. I also believe it commemorates an event with that ship or some other historical event. To clean it soak it in plain water for a few days then use a toothpick to GENTLY "push" of any dirt that may be on it.
If you can take and post a picture of both sides of it and tell us exactly what it says on either side especially the Makers Marks on the back side then maybe I can further ID it for you. As Is Value: $5 ok. Nice find. PEACE:RONB

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

What button-collectors call a "Jacksonian" button was an unusual version of brass flatbutton with a raised emblem and an applied rim... called Jacksonian because they were popular in the United States during the presidency of Andrew jackson (1829-37). The close-up photo below shows the front and back of one, on which you can clearly see the applied rim surrounding the flatbutton's body. Your find is definitely a Jacksonian button which has lost its applied rim.

In the "group photo" below, I believe your find is button #6 in row #6, showing a sailing ship with three masts. You'll probably need to use T-Net's "Enlarge-the-image" function to see the button's emblem detail. I have a .bmp imagefile of that photo, which shows your button with perfect clarity, but at 16 megabytes that bitmap file exceeds TreasureNet's photo size limit.

Nhbenz is right. of course... the backmark's spelling of the word "color" as "colour" means it is a British-made button. The majority of the Jacksonian buttons I've seen have a British backmark, which at least kinda-sorta indicates that this very unusual version of flatbutton was invented in Britain.

 

[nhbenz]

Always glad to learn more, Thanks CBG! I now see that my idea of wording around the edge was wrong, as this portion would have been covered by an applied rim. Sorry if anyone squinted too looking for what my mind made up!