✅ SOLVED Button ?

[Broken knee]

Could this be a RI. state cuff button if so how old could it be?
Thanks for looking, HH Broken Knee

 

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[Coinstriking Michigan]

Not sure but it looks awesome.

 

[duggap]

If it has a back in it, what does it say.

 

[Broken knee]

If it has a back in it, what does it say.

Yes the back is there just cant read it? possibly Waterbury but I'm not sure? BK

 

[fyrffytr1]

It looks like a Rhode Island state seal button. A backmark would really help ID it but this form of the state seal appears to be an early one, maybe pre-war. There are four possible backmarks listed in Albert's under RI-8; "Scovill Mfg. Co,/Waterbury", "Waterbury Button Co.", "D.Evans & Co./Attleboro" and "Superior/Quality".

 

[Broken knee]

I worked on the back it says Waterbury button Co.
BK

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Broken Knee wrote:
> Could this be a RI. state cuff button if so how old could it be?
> I worked on the back it says Waterbury Button Co.

Yes, it is a Rhode Island Staff Officer cuff-size button.

Your button's age depends on whether the backmark's letters have serifs, or not. With serifs, it is 1850s-to-late 1800s. Without serifs, it is 1890-1943. Info source: "American Military Button Makers And Dealers; Their Backmarks & Dates" by William F. McGuinn & Bruce S. Bazelon.