Help date a button!

[SCDigginWithAK]

I dug this button at a site that dates back to the 1760s. It looks like a 2 piece with the front being brass and the back being iron or something along those lines. Any body have a guess as to its age?
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SCDigginWithAK

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Sorry to have to tell you that although your button was found at 1760s site, it is definitely a 20th Century button. The important ID clue for time-dating your button is the version of shank/thread loop. Your photo shows it is too wide-bodied to be a "wire" shank/loop. Your button has what button-collectors call a "self-shank" back... which means, part of the 2-piece button's back itself forms the shank/loop. Your 2-piece (brass front, iron back) button has the type of self-shank back shown in the photo below. Notice that the shank/loop is wide sheetmetal, not a wire. That type did not exist until the 20th Century.

 

[SCDigginWithAK]

Sorry to have to tell you that although your button was found at 1760s site, it is definitely a 20th Century button. The important ID clue for time-dating your button is the version of shank/thread loop. Your photo shows it is too wide-bodied to be a "wire" shank/loop. Your button has what button-collectors call a "self-shank" back... which means, part of the 2-piece button's back itself forms the shank/loop. Your 2-piece (brass front, iron back) button has the type of self-shank back shown in the photo below. Notice that the shank/loop is wide sheetmetal, not a wire. That type did not exist until the 20th Century.

Thank you. I knew it was definitely 1900s but I was hoping for a decade but I understand that is very hard to say. Thanks CBG