✅ SOLVED Flat Button Design ID?

[flinthunter]

I found this flat button at a mid 1830's home site that was unoccupied before 1850. The backmark that I can read is RICH COL. The rest is to corroded to read so I can't tell if "col" is color or colour. I am assuming the button is 1830ish +/- 20 years. My question is about the design on the front. Is it just common civilian or something more interesting. Thanks

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Definitely a civilian "floral" design on the front. That being said, a version of it is shown in the Albert button-book's Supplement section (page 495) as a North Carolina button. It is listed on that page as button #NC-16D, a brass 1-piece button with a Scovill backmark. Unlike your button, it shows the letters NC inside the circle on the front.

Because it is a dug in the US brass 1-piece button, and the backmark is in "raised" lettering, your button can date from as early as the 1790s, through the 1820s, and is most probably a British-made one.

Edit, for clarification:
Please note the emphasis on "dug in the US" in the above dating. Brass 1-piece buttons with a raised-lettering backmark continued to be manufactured in Europe for many-many decades after the 1820s.

 

[flinthunter]

Definitely a civilian "floral" design on the front. That being said, a version of it is shown in the Albert button-book's Supplement section (page 495) as a North Carolina button. It is listed on that page as button #NC-16D, a brass 1-piece button with a Scovill backmark. Unlike your button, it shows the letters NC inside the circle on the front.

Because it is a brass 1-piece button and the backmark is in "raised" lettering, your button can date from as early as the 1790s, through the 1820s, and is most probably a British-made one.

That was fast. Thank you very much.