✅ SOLVED Eagle button ID and a Casco

[Smilodon]

Any ideas on eagle button? Small button, I can only see the letter "N" on the backmark. This area produced mainly buttons from the colonial period, rev war, and war of 1812. However a north Carolina and script I civil war button were also found at this location. Found the other item at a different location, looked like a mineral swirl knob, it has Casco on the back side.

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Your button is a US Army "general service" 2-piece brass button for Enlisted-men. (Officers' buttons were different.) The version you found was issued from 1854 through 1874... but finding other civil war Military relics at the same spot means yours is from the uniform of a civil war soldier.

 

[Smilodon]

Your button is a US Army "general service" 2-piece brass button for Enlisted-men. (Officers' buttons were different.) The version you found was issued from 1854 through 1874... but finding other civil war Military relics at the same spot means yours is from the uniform of a civil war soldier.[/QUOT


Awesome, a civil button. Do you have any pictures of what this would look like if it was cleaned up? Also would you be able to tell the back mark on this one with just the letter N

Thanks again for the information

 

[button king]

Here u go smilodon hope this hopes u !

 

[nhbenz]

I believe your other item is a steering wheel knob, from around the 30's.
http://www.google.com/search?q=vint...insAT55oDQDA&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=672

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

You say it is "a small button"... and its size compared to your fingerprints indicates it is the cuff-size (15mm or 3/5-inch) of civil war yankee "general service" buttons. You can see lots of excellent closeup photos of the front and back of the 19mm and 21mm sizes in non-excavated condition at the following webpage. Unfortunately only the final set of photos there shows the 15mm version... and there are MANY variations of it.
Ridgeway Civil War Archive Federal general service buttons, two piece buttons.

You asked about the backmark on your cuff-size civil war yankee "eagle button." The two most prolific manufacturers of civil war military buttons were the Scovill Mfg. Co. and the Waterbury Button Co. There was also a very prolific dealer/supplier, Horstmann Bros. & Co., who did not actually manufacture any buttons, but instead purchased them from Waterbury Button and Scovill. Therefore, STATISTICALLY speaking, the odds favor your button showing an "N" in the backmark being from either Waterbury Button Co. or Horstmann. There is a somewhat lesser chance that your button's backmark is D. Evans & Co.