Dug Button ID Help??

[spudnutt]

Have these 2 buttons that were dug in the Massachusetts/New Hampshire area. I believe the 5 point star one is an early Maine militia button, but it's not shown in Tice's button book. The other is pewter and seems to be much older. Anyone have any ideas?

 

[longcut]

spudnut ,, yesterday civil war 22 posted a button that looks like that with an M in the star ..................

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Your brass 1-piece flatbutton has a shamrock (3-leaf clover) between each of the star's five points. Therefore, I believe it is a Civilian-usage button, not a Military one. I can read "Extra Rich" (and another word too corroded to interpret in your photo) on its back, written in indented lettering, which dates a US-dug brass 1-piece flatbutton to approximately 1810 through the 1830s.

Your cast pewter 1-piece button also has a Civilian-usage design on its front. It dates from the 1700s into the early 1800s.

 

[confederate83]

Your brass 1-piece flatbutton has a shamrock (3-leaf clover) between each of the star's five points. Therefore, I believe it is a Civilian-usage button, not a Military one. I can read "Extra Rich" (and another word too corroded to interpret in your photo) on its back, written in indented lettering, which dates a US-dug brass 1-piece flatbutton to approximately 1810 through the 1830s.

Your cast pewter 1-piece button also has a Civilian-usage design on its front. It dates from the 1700s into the early 1800s.

WOW

 

[spudnutt]

Wow is right. Thanks for all the info!

 

[Silver Searcher]

Cool buttons does your area were the pewter button was found, have any links to the early settlers, it could have made it's way across the pond.

SS

 

[Uncle Jeff]

Your brass 1-piece flatbutton has a shamrock (3-leaf clover) between each of the star's five points. Therefore, I believe it is a Civilian-usage button, not a Military one. I can read "Extra Rich" (and another word too corroded to interpret in your photo) on its back, written in indented lettering, which dates a US-dug brass 1-piece flatbutton to approximately 1810 through the 1830s.

Your cast pewter 1-piece button also has a Civilian-usage design on its front. It dates from the 1700s into the early 1800s.

Hey Pete .. you expanding into buttons now? Very Nice explanation. I have come to expect nothing less from you .. completely factual comments with links and photos to back you up.. Crap it is Pete is it not.. I told you I was bad with names ....

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Not "expanding into buttons"... I've been a dealer of pre-20th-Century dug & non-dug buttons for about 38 years. To preserve my reputation as a dealer whose word and relic-labels are solidly trustworthy, I did a LOT of studying, and I keep on studying. (This forum is a great place for that.) Way back at the beginning, I decided I didn't want to ever have a customer come back to me and RIGHTLY say "Pete, this button (or other relic) you sold me isn't what you said it is."

Having been burned by "misidentified" relics myself, I didn't want to do that to anybody else. Yep, my motivation is that simple. Don't do to somebody else what you wouldn't want done to you.