🔎 UNIDENTIFIED I know it's an overall button, Need info on maker

[YBnormal]

I already know that is an overall button, but I have never seen this brand. I certanly have never seen one with a civil war. Ironclad on it. I would love to see any info on the maker and timeframe they may have been made. It was dug on a site that produces artifiacts from pre civil war up thru about 1950s.

thanks

 

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[pepperj]

Never seen one posted up before, very nice recovery.
I looked at a lot of overall buttons online and got zippo-sorry no help on the ID

 

[ticndig]

can we see the back ?

 

[Cuda74]

I already know that is an overall button, but I have never seen this brand. I certanly have never seen one with a civil war. Ironclad on it. I would love to see any info on the maker and timeframe they may have been made. It was dug on a site that produces artifiacts from pre civil war up thru about 1950s.

thanks

Very cool button, I hope someone can help you find out more about it.

 

[BBJJBB]

I already know that is an overall button, but I have never seen this brand. I certanly have never seen one with a civil war. Ironclad on it. I would love to see any info on the maker and timeframe they may have been made. It was dug on a site that produces artifiacts from pre civil war up thru about 1950s.

thanks

Looks like a Civil War Iron Clad ship.
Is that a Confederate X on the flag?

 

[YBnormal]

Looks like a Civil War Iron Clad ship.
Is that a Confederate X on the flag?

I think it is unlikely, The style of ironclad is like the Union's ships with two stacks. I belive the confederate ships had only one stack.

 

[YBnormal]

can we see the back ?

It wont help much, just a rust lump where the back was

 

[Bramblefind]

Neat button! I think based on this advertisement I would estimate the 1920s. This is from The Charlotte Observer, 9/11/1921.

 

[DCMatt]

Once again Bramblefind knocks off a 'What is it?' ID from the Treasurenet Grassy Knoll.

Well done!

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

YBnormal said:
> I think it is unlikely. The style of ironclad [on your overalls-button] is like the
> Union's ships with two stacks. I believe the Confederate ships had only one stack.

YBnormal is correct. When most Americans think of a yankee ironclad's shape, they see the "circular turret on a flat raft" shape of the Monitor-Class ironclads. But the yankees did produce "river warfare" ironclads which had a sloping shield like the Confederate ironclads. Here's a link to photos of one of the seven City-Class civil war ironclads, the USS Cairo. Those photos show the two-smokestacks ironclad on the overalls-button. The USS Cairo sank in the Yazoo River during the Vicksburg Campaign when she struck two Confederate mines almost simultaneously.

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[GaRebel1861]

It’s the first one of those that I’ve ever seen. Can’t be too common.

 

[fyrffytr1]

I would take it any day of the week!