Found this fancy dress button(?)

[Rickayak]

I found what I think is a dress button yesterday. I would love to know more about it. Can you folks help? It is around the size of a quarter.

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Its really pretty....but I am not sure its a button...are there tiny screw or nail holes on each side?

 

[Rickayak]

It has a wire loop on the back that looks like it was soldered on some how. The loop, of course, is bent over but could have served as a way to sew it onto a garment as a button.

 

[BuckleBoy]

A photo of the back please, as well as something beside it so that we can tell how big it is (a penny or a quarter would work).

-Buckleboy

 

[downindixie]

Whoa,nice button,probably Victorian!

 

[nhbenz]

Welcome to Treasurenet. Where you found it would possibly give us some guidance.

 

[Montana Jim]

Very cool piece... I would also like to see the back of it...


Hey Buckles... he said it was the size of a quarter...

 

[digmichigan]

a great looking piece - can't wait to see what it turns out to be

nice find

 

[Rickayak]

Found in Lancaster County on the Northern Neck of Virginia. Here is the back of the button . . .

 

[Montana Jim]

Okay... I was just cruising some other sites and found a few ornate buttons "shaped" like this but not "looked" like this one.

I think you have a fancy 1700's British button.



Source: http://metaldetectingtours.com/htm/artifact_coin_finds_tudor.shtml

 

[HutSiteDigger]

My friend found one of these buttons in Lancaster,Virginia (same county you found yours) If i recall it was a house site dating from the 1840s to turn of the century.