Flat Button “Best Quality”

kdeckard1982

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So happy to find this website today. This is my first post here so if I need to add other pics, please let me know.

I found this outside my house today. I’d love to find out approximate age for this button. Our house was built in 1900 and we have been finding some cool things over the last 6 months that we have moved here. (Including a large cent from 1855. I attached those pictures for fun.)

Thanks for any help you have!
 

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CRUSADER

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Welcome to Tnet.

Well the button was made before your large Cent of 1855, so either something happen on your property before it was built, or they used Grandma's button box.
Need more clues....
 

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kdeckard1982

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Mar 25, 2023
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Welcome to Tnet.

Well the button was made before your large Cent of 1855, so either something happen on your property before it was built, or they used Grandma's button box.
Need more clues....
Thanks, glad to have found the forum! Any ideas on what clues would help? The only other thing that I can think of is that we live in NW Indiana, and the people that owned our home since the 40’s were German Baptist, not that there would be much of a clue in that.

With the buttons, do you know if there were certain companies that made the “Best Quality” buttons, or were there several companies that made that grade of buttons?

Please know that I don’t really know anything about these, so if I am asking dumb questions or giving useless info, please let me know😂

Thanks again for the warm welcome!
 

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ArfieBoy

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Ther ain't no such thing as a dumb question! Welcome to the forum from Oregon! Where are you from?
 

Almy

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"Best quality" is one of the designations of British-made buttons from the colonial period, 1700s to maybe the 1st quarter of the 1800s. They had a lot of different designations such as gilt, best gilt, orange (meaning gold) and others. Mostly advertising promotion but had some descriptive value about the button, such as how many times it was dipped in the gilding and what metal was used.
 

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So happy to find this website today. This is my first post here so if I need to add other pics, please let me know.

I found this outside my house today. I’d love to find out approximate age for this button. Our house was built in 1900 and we have been finding some cool things over the last 6 months that we have moved here. (Including a large cent from 1855. I attached those pictures for fun.)

Thanks for any help you have!
Nice finds. Welcome aboard
 

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So happy to find this website today. This is my first post here so if I need to add other pics, please let me know.

I found this outside my house today. I’d love to find out approximate age for this button. Our house was built in 1900 and we have been finding some cool things over the last 6 months that we have moved here. (Including a large cent from 1855. I attached those pictures for fun.)

Thanks for any help you have!
Nice finds. Welcome abo
Thanks, glad to have found the forum! Any ideas on what clues would help? The only other thing that I can think of is that we live in NW Indiana, and the people that owned our home since the 40’s were German Baptist, not that there would be much of a clue in that.

With the buttons, do you know if there were certain companies that made the “Best Quality” buttons, or were there several companies that made that grade of buttons?

Please know that I don’t really know anything about these, so if I am asking dumb questions or giving useless info, please let me know😂

Thanks again for the warm welcome!
I've been detecting probably 30 yrs. I have questions almost every time I go digging. The members of this forum will almost always figure out what you've dug up.
 

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So happy to find this website today. This is my first post here so if I need to add other pics, please let me know.

I found this outside my house today. I’d love to find out approximate age for this button. Our house was built in 1900 and we have been finding some cool things over the last 6 months that we have moved here. (Including a large cent from 1855. I attached those pictures for fun.)

Thanks for any help you have!
Keep going my friend!!
 

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kdeckard1982

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Mar 25, 2023
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"Best quality" is one of the designations of British-made buttons from the colonial period, 1700s to maybe the 1st quarter of the 1800s. They had a lot of different designations such as gilt, best gilt, orange (meaning gold) and others. Mostly advertising promotion but had some descriptive value about the button, such as how many times it was dipped in the gilding and what metal was used.
Thanks so much for this info Almy! I can’t believe that I’m finding stuff this old at my own house. I can’t wait to really go digging around my property. I found both of these on the surface. 👍🏻

Thanks again for all your help!
 

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So happy to find this website today. This is my first post here so if I need to add other pics, please let me know.

I found this outside my house today. I’d love to find out approximate age for this button. Our house was built in 1900 and we have been finding some cool things over the last 6 months that we have moved here. (Including a large cent from 1855. I attached those pictures for fun.)

Thanks for any help you have!
So happy to find this website today. This is my first post here so if I need to add other pics, please let me know.

I found this outside my house today. I’d love to find out approximate age for this button. Our house was built in 1900 and we have been finding some cool things over the last 6 months that we have moved here. (Including a large cent from 1855. I attached those pictures for fun.)

Thanks for any help you have!
Very Cool!!! Congrats!!! Welcome to Tnet!!!
 

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If you're finding items on the surface, just imagine whats under the soil waiting to be discovered. Keep us posted.
 

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Thanks, glad to have found the forum! Any ideas on what clues would help? The only other thing that I can think of is that we live in NW Indiana, and the people that owned our home since the 40’s were German Baptist, not that there would be much of a clue in that.

With the buttons, do you know if there were certain companies that made the “Best Quality” buttons, or were there several companies that made that grade of buttons?

Please know that I don’t really know anything about these, so if I am asking dumb questions or giving useless info, please let me know😂

Thanks again for the warm welcome!
Clues in this reference means any other finds you dig, although on ploughed land it could be eyes only finds as well as metal finds.
Proper ID'ing of the finds (clues) build up a picture, then you can make educated speculation about what might have been going on & at least narrow a date range.

Hundreds of British companies used the Quality mark of ''Best Quality'', & because it's not a Makers Mark, it only has limited info.
 

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