✅ SOLVED Military button help

[trapperart]

Can anyone ID this 2 piece button with out the back mark? Thanks Art

 

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[diggummup]

Looks like a New York button.

 

[trapperart]

Looks like a New York button.

You da man, thank you very much

 

[G.A.P.metal]

Beautiful old N.Y. button Art.
That button has seen a lot of service before being lost !
Gary

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Yep, a New York button... but more specifically, a New York State Militia button, most probably from the civil war era, but postwar ones (1870s through about 1900) do exist. Does it have a readable backmark?

 

[trapperart]

Yep, a New York button... but more specifically, a New York State Militia button, most probably from the civil war era, but postwar ones (1870s through about 1900) do exist. Does it have a readable backmark?

No it doesn't

 

[trapperart]

Yep, a New York button... but more specifically, a New York State Militia button, most probably from the civil war era, but postwar ones (1870s through about 1900) do exist. Does it have a readable backmark?

Forgot to thank you for the info, so thanks