Georgia seal button

[Bmerck]

I found this while digging a bottle dump was needing help putting a date to it

 

[lairmo]

Nice Button!!!

 

[Bmerck]

Thank you... I found it a while ago. Just cant figure out the date

 

[jones6780]

Here is one with a different back, Shiloh Civil War Relics Catalog
The back makes a huge difference in value.

 

[IowaRelic]

That’s a good one. I’m not sure what it is, but given the 2 piece design should be 1860s or just after

 

[GaRebel1861]

I think it’s post war but, I could be wrong. It won’t be the first time! You need to PM message either fyrffytr1 or the cannonballguy. One of those two could tell you for sure. If it’s civil war, I think you got yourself a really nice button. Good luck.

 

[fyrffytr1]

Superior Quality backmark was used by Steele and Johnson from the 1850s-60s. But, it was also found on Waterbury buttons dating from 1875-1935. I think it is the latter and dates to the 20th century. Can you make out any lettering in the banner.

 

[Bmerck]

No i cant make out any words and thanks yall for your input

 

[HuntinDog]

Bmerck,
Thats a cool button.
Congrats on the find.

and​ Welcome to TreasureNet

 

[devldog]

Beautiful Georgia State Seal button. War period or not, it's a Keeper.

 

[baspinall]

I'm thinking post war as well. The banner lettering seems to worn off to easy?

The Treasure Depot Button Project

 

[baspinall]

I'm thinking post war as well. The banner lettering seems to worn off to easy? Another note. The only one I have seen with the vertical back lines has water /waves at the bottom. Look here at the 1855-65 ones.

The Treasure Depot Button Project

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

(Sigh)
Doesn't anybody reading this thread own a copy of the button picture-book by Alphaeus H. Albert titled "Record Of American Uniform And Historical Buttons"?

Your specific version of GA Seal button (which by the way is a "flat" 2-piece brass button) is shown in the Albert button-book as GA-17B. The only known specimens of it which have a name in the backmark say "Pettibone Bros. Mfg. Co." The company was in business under that name from about 1880 until it closed in 1975. However, Pettibone did not manufacture any buttons... they were made by the Waterbury Button Company. Your 2-piece (not 3-piece) GA Seal button is not shown in the Waterbury Button Co.'s illustrated catalog from 1900. So, it must have been made sometime later in the 20th Century.
You can view every page of that catalog in the .pdf file here:
https://archive.org/details/militaryallmetal00wate/page/10
Waterbury's 3-piece ("Staff") version of your button is shown on page 10 of the 1900 catalog.

There was no civil war era (or earlier) "FLAT" TWO-PIECE Georgia State Seal button which had a "lined background" and TWO curls of the ribbon on the columns. (That is why it is not shown among all the Georgia Seal civil war buttons at the Treasure Depot Button Project website.)

More evidence that your button is from the 20th Century:
Your button's backmark, saying "Superior Quality", is written in what is called plain block lettering. Very few button backmarks used plain block lettering until the 1890s... and that lettering-style became the "used-everywhere" standard lettering as the calendar clicked over into the 1900s.

Lastly... your exact same "flat 2-piece" GA State Seal button (except for the backmark) is still being made and sold by the Waterbury Button Company today. You can order one from the following page of the WBC's online catalog, here:
https://waterburybutton.com/product-detail/georgia-state-seal-30

 

[baspinall]

Doesn't anybody reading this thread own a copy of the button picture-book by Alphaeus H. Albert titled "Record Of American Uniform And Historical Buttons"?

Never knew that was available online. Thanks

 

[A2coins]

Great ID CBG nice button too

 

[A2coins]

Also welcome to tnet

 

[Bmerck]

Thank you ever one