✅ SOLVED Button identification help pleaseeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!

[treasure.wow]

Hi! I found this button searching in my backyard in NC the other day and I have no idea what it is. My land dates back to the late 1800s and I've found a lot of stuff from that time. I have no idea who lived there or how old this button is!!!! It seems like a military button but I can't find any info on it. Please help if you can!!!!!!

 

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[brianc053]

It looks similar to (but not exactly like) the construction of a Jacksonian Button, although it looks large for a Jacksonian. (Jacksonians were pretty small from what I understand.)

Check out this link for examples: https://www.bysonbuttons.com/jacks.html

Jacksonian buttons are circa Andrew Jackson's presidency, so roughly 1830's.
I'm not an expert in buttons, but I found a Jacksonian button once so I did research on them, and yours looks similar enough to offer the suggestion.

Good luck!

- Brian

 

[smokeythecat]

I haven't seen one of those before. Curious button.

 

[treasure.wow]

Thank you! It does look similar...the only thing is its not flat. Hopefully I'll figure it out soon

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

The back-view photo shows this button's iron back extends all the way over to the very edge of the back. So, although this button looks a lot like a 3-piece "high-domed" button, it is not a 3-piece button. I believe it is what is called a "False 3-Piece" -- made to closely resemble a 3-piece, but much simpler and cheaper to manufacture. The False 3-Piece type starts showing up around 1900, plus or minus a few years.

Of course, False 3-Piece buttons are strictly Civilian, never Military-issue. That being said, when yankee civil war veterans wanted to buy 3-piece US Staff Officer buttons for their reunion uniforms after that button was discontinued in 1902, at least one button manufacturer made some False 3-Piece US Staff buttons, which had an iron back. See the images below.

I've seen the emblem on treasure.wow's button somewhere, long ago, but I cannot now recall its ID. All I can tell you about it is that it is from sometime in the very early 1900s, and is not a US Military-issue button.

 

[brianc053]

I would defer to TheCannonballGuy's analysis; his suggestion is more likely correct than mine.

Now that I look back on my button from last year, it was flat (like the Jacksonians) and not domed like yours treasure.wow. I think the similarities I noticed were the rim of the button and the fine lines that occur on yours between the three circles and on mine vertically behind the horse.

But yours is pretty different from mine overall, which is why I think TheCannonballGuy is more likely correct.

 

[MKW]

Isn't the 3 links an Odd Fellows symbol?? I seem to remember that.

Edit: Yes, I just looked it up, so I'd say it's a civilian button from an Odd Fellows Jacket.

 

[gunsil]

I believe MKW has it, looks like an Odd Fellows logo but I don't know about the stars. I'd bet Odd Fellows.

 

[Dougie Webb]

You guys nailed it!

 

[treasure.wow]

WOW!!!! thanks everybody!!!! I've never used a metal detecting forum and I didn't know how helpful it would be! what a good community

 

[cw0909]

great ID
here is a book with info on odd fellow symbolism
i searched links
https://archive.org/details/symbolismofoddfe00ford/page/256/mode/1up?view=theater&q=links
the book has had a few editions since 1904
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Symbolism_of_Odd_Fellowship/RuggvgAACAAJ?hl=en&kptab=overview

 

[MKW]

WooHoo...my first ID on here! I happen to have a ring with that symbol on it that I inherited from my Great Grandfather.