✅ SOLVED Early cuff button from 1808-1816 Fort. Possible Revolutionary or Washington.

[ColtsPop]

Thirteen arrows extending from a 13 pointed star. Thick outline. No back mark, shank intact. One piece struck. Circle in the middle of sun/star. 12.76 mm. Recovered at a pre-1812 fort. Not in Alberts. Thinking Revolutionary War period or early state militias, but can find no info. Any help appreciated. Image in tenths of an inch.

 

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[fishstick]

I've never seen that design but it's SWEET looking!!!! CONGRATZ...

 

[HuntinDog]

Awesome button
hope you get an ID
Congrats

 

[A2coins]

Wow that puppy looks old freakin cool find

 

[Tony in SC]

In what area did you find it? I ask because I think I have one like that if I can find it.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Awesome button recovery!

 

[ColtsPop]

In what area did you find it? I ask because I think I have one like that if I can find it.

North Alabama. Could be troop movement. If you find it, PM me.

 

[DCMatt]

North Alabama. Could be troop movement. If you find it, PM me.

You mean, "Upper Alabama"...

I always tell people I was born in LA - Lower Alabama (Mobile).

Sorry, couldn't resist. I think your button is civilian. The sunburst motif was popular at the turn of the 19th C.

Also, IMO, many of what we 'cuff buttons' are actually vest or waistcoat buttons - not that there's any real difference in the size.

 

[Hawks88]

Nice save. Congrats

 

[Retired Sarge]

You mean, "Upper Alabama"...

I always tell people I was born in LA - Lower Alabama (Mobile).

Sorry, couldn't resist. I think your button is civilian. The sunburst motif was popular at the turn of the 19th C.

Also, IMO, many of what we 'cuff buttons' are actually vest or waistcoat buttons - not that there's any real difference in the size.

Hey I'm in the other Lower Alabama aka Panama City, Florida aka FLA aka F...ing Lower Alabama...........

 

[ColtsPop]

Matt, I have been doing a study on the buttons I have recovered at this site - and you are right, the variation is minimal when you start talking about size. Unless you have an actual piece of clothing you can’t know what the button was used for. BTW, an archaeologist friend of mine agrees with your civilian assessment.

 

[GaRebel1861]

Hey I'm in the other Lower Alabama aka Panama City, Florida aka FLA aka F...ing Lower Alabama...........

 

[HI-McDunnogh]

Awesome find man. Congrats!

 

[smokeythecat]

That is a nice button, especially way down south where you are. I have some similar ones, but smaller and they are civilian patterns last quarter of the 18th century to first quarter of the 19th.

 

[ColtsPop]

That is a nice button, especially way down south where you are. I have some similar ones, but smaller and they are civilian patterns last quarter of the 18th century to first quarter of the 19th.

Could they have been militia used?

 

[ColtsPop]

From Archaeologist friend - the mystery continues:

I couldn't find a match to your flat cast 1-piece button with the 13-pointed star design, but that decoration is close to types made for the US military between 1808 and 1821. That broad rim band is quite distinctive. If you are able to bring out any lettering in the rim band or in the center of the star, maybe we could locate a match in the literature.

 

[A2coins]

Wow thats a cool piece of history. Nice save

 

[smokeythecat]

And to answer your question, a militia could use anything. They were civilians after all.

 

[CRUSADER]

You mean, "Upper Alabama"...

I always tell people I was born in LA - Lower Alabama (Mobile).

Sorry, couldn't resist. I think your button is civilian. The sunburst motif was popular at the turn of the 19th C.

Also, IMO, many of what we 'cuff buttons' are actually vest or waistcoat buttons - not that there's any real difference in the size.

Agreed, a common civvy flat button.