Button with eagle

[Eclipse]

Hello guys, could you help with this button

sorry about pics quality

tnx

 

[spudnutt]

Are you able to make out any of the writing on the button? Sometimes if you gently rub your thumb across the face of the button the oils in your finger will bring out details that you normally can't see. Could help us in identifying it.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Hello, Eclipse. Welcome to the TreasureNet forum.

Size is often important for getting accurate identification of a button, but you did not tell us the button's size. Also, the location where the button was found is very important.

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php?topic=259110.0

Your button is a nearly flat one-piece brass button with a "die-stamped" emblem. Most of that kind were manufactured in the 1800s (mainly between 1800 and 1850). So, your button is most probably from sometime in the 1800s.

Because you did not tell us where the button was found, I looked for clues. I see the flag of Belarus with your name, so I assume that is where you live, and also is where the button was found.

In Europe, a button showing a crown above an eagle usually is an Imperial or Royal Army button. So, if the button was found in Belarus, it is probably a Russian Imperial Army button ...meaning, the Czar's (or Czarina's) Army.

 

[DCMatt]

French Empire (Napoleon) button?

DCMatt

 

[CC Hunter]

I will concur with TheCannoballGuy on the era of this style of button.

My thought though is French as well for this button, or possibly some other Western European country, as the lettering appears to be Latin based alphabet. Items originating from Russia or Eastern European countries, will have text written in Cyrillic alphabet similar to this; Имперская Россия (which by the way, is Imperial Russia written in Cyrillic).

CC

 

[Eclipse]

tnx for help, found it

this one

 

[CC Hunter]

We are on the right track, yet the marked with a red square example from the reference book on French Military Buttons appears to have a different motto surrounding the eagle.

On your excavated example there Eclipse, it appears to me the letters above and to the left of the eagle head/crown, are MIL....(maybe for MILITARE?). In the book, the lettering on the similar button in the same area is DES (French "of" or "of the"?).

CC Hunter