Found a Button today.......

[Clarky821]

While I was walking my metal detector tonight, I came across a button. The front of the button is flat (no design, just some small, faded round ridges that come out from the middle like rings on a tree). However, on the back, it says "Warranted" across the top, and "Rich Orange" across the bottom. I did a quick search for "Warranted Rich Orange" buttons, and I keep seeing posts, web sites, and other links refrencing this phrase to Confederate civil war buttons, or buttons from the era of 1820-1860. I live an hour North of Harrisburg, PA (outskirts of Klingerstown). Would anyone have any possible info Thanks!!!

 

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[TNGUNS]

Really need to post pics and give exact dimensions to get better ID. Hope we get to see it. Congrats

 

[DebiC]

I did a google search and found lots of info guess the rich orange refers to the color.
https://www.google.com/search?q=ric...y_H8HisAS-0ILYBQ&ved=0CCgQsAQ&biw=976&bih=428

heres the image search

 

[Clarky821]

Here are some pics of the button. It measures about 11/16 of an inch (around 17-18 mm).

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Nice button find!

 

[Clarky821]

Hi everyone!!!

Since I'm new to the site, I didn't look down enough in the Forums to see that there was a "What is it??" Forum. I posted the same info on there and got a reply from TheCannonballGuy (Educator). I figured I would pass this along to you just in case you come across a button with that phrase "Warranted Rich Orange" on it. HAPPY HUNTING!!!!!

From TheCannonballGuy: You found what button collectors call a brass 1-piece flatbutton, a type which was manufactured for civilian usage, not military. The great majority we find here in America date from the late-1700s to about 1840. Your button's backmark saying "Warranted Rich Orange" means it is British-made. "Warranted" is Brit-speak for guaranteed, and "Orange" refers to the color of the goldplating (gilt) which was applied to it. Brass 1-piece flatbuttons with a raised-lettering backmark date from about 1790 to 1840... and ones which have an indented-lettering backmark (like yours) began to show up a bit later, about 1810, and continued to be made into the 1840s. Brass 1-piece flatbuttons fell out of favor with the public by the end of the 1830s, due to the advent of machinery which could mass-produce inexpensive "ornate" (fancy-design) 2-piece brass buttons.