Button ID Help Please...For a Friend

[daimlerbenz]

Hello everyone,
First time Posting for me...And its not really for me A Friend found this in a ship off the Jersey Coast Scuba Diving.He's Not sure if its a Button or something else.
Looks like a button to me,but i figure i would ask the experts on Treasurenet
I will be scanning some of my finds the next couple of days...Including some items i will need your help again IDing.
Over the last couple of years i have been watching all of you finding some Incredible items...Stuff i DREAM of.
Now i have become One of you...a Member of Treasurenet
Happy Hunting,And thanks for any help you can give me on this item and Future finds.
daimlerbenz

 

[tymcmurray]

The back piece makes me think it was a cuff link.
Sorry. No idea on a date.

 

[CRUSADER]

Welcome to the wonderful world of tnet.

I don't think its a button & it looks like a modern imitation of an older object/button thingy. No idea what it pegged too?


Someone will narrow it down better than my rant.

 

[Iron Patch]

Your pictures are so close it actually makes it harder to get a sense of what this is, and how old.

Is the back a very close picture of a broken shank or something else?

 

[BuckleBoy]

This should really be in "What is it."

And it should also have a clear photo along with something for size reference...