✅ SOLVED Hi friends!

[CoilyGirl]

I need help with a button identification, yet another find I didn’t make but it’s still cool to just know. Ya know? It’s fairly thin, looks to be two piece and looks like either brass or copper. Two headed eagle with what looks to be the date of 1780. There are so many variations of two headed eagle buttons,etc. but it looks like I’m seeing the words archid,invento?

 

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[cw0909]

some info from PBK post 2007
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/t...ton-found-need-id-help-tsgman.html#post342648

info pg PBK sited
Other strikes resembling Maria Theresia Talers

 

[CoilyGirl]

Thank you Plug N Play and cw0909. Is it a fantasy piece or real do ya’ll think?

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Sorry to have to tell you, your button has what is called a "pierced dome" self-shank back... which was invented, patented, and first manufactured in the very-early 1900s.

For anybody here who doesn't already know:
What button-collectors call a "self-shank" back does not have a separately-made loop for the thread which attaches the button to the cloth... the back itself forms the passage or tunnel which the thread goes through. See the photos below., which show why this form is called a "pierced dome."

 

[CoilyGirl]

I’m glad to know Cannonball guy! Hope you are well.

 

[Luciano321]

Looks like a Russian design

 

[ToddsPoint]

The writing on the button seems to point to Tyrol, Austria. Gary

 

[cw0909]

nice Cannonball guy was able to date it to, no earlier than the early 1900s
by the attachment device part, thats called a pierced dome self-shank back

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