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✅ SOLVED Military button help

trapperart

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

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