✅ SOLVED iron button

[Older The Better]

sorry about multiple posts I cant get more than a few pics to upload before it locks up so I have to break it down into groups

from what I can find iron buttons were made from 1800-1870 anybody confirm this or have other info

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

Diving for Pleasure and Treasure - Grab it through Amazon!

[Older The Better]

Cool part two loaded I'm thinking shot shell if so anybody tell what kind by pattern on the side?

 

[Davers]

In Civil War Areas where I have Dug a Few buttons of this type (as well as others I know).

We always called them " Underwear" buttons. That were fro the Civil War (Most likely).

As for your bullet frag , Is the Patina White ? this don;t always matter tho, The only Civil War Bullets that show that XXXX,
pattern were Pistol 36 cal 44 cal that were made at the Watervlite Arsenal.

Could be Modern to , IMO Your site "Could' date to before the Civil War to years After.
Just my best Guess.

 

[Davers]

View attachment 1463066View attachment 1463067
sorry about multiple posts I cant get more than a few pics to upload before it locks up so I have to break it down into groups

from what I can find iron buttons were made from 1800-1870 anybody confirm this or have other info

Oh if 2'd picture , the piece is made of brass , than most likely a Shot Gun Head or Bottom.

 

[Davers]

Cool part two loaded I'm thinking shot shell if so anybody tell what kind by pattern on the side?

Man .
I've seen Soooooooo, many patterns on those 'False 12'th GA Civil War Buttons' . Many do look like that tho.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Iron 4-hole buttons were made long before and long after the civil war. They're still being manufactured today. At the time of the civil war, and on into the first half of the 20th-Century, they were used on "longjohns" underwear, vests, for pants-waist closure, and pants-fly closure, among other uses. Thus, they're difficult to time-date with any accuracy. All I can say is that yours, being "somewhat thick" iron rather than thin stamped sheet-iron, is probably from sometime in the 1800s.

 

[Older The Better]

great thanks guys, I had a date of 1820's on my site and was a little disappointed finding a 4 hole among flat buttons, I thought those were much more modern good to hear my date can hold.