✅ SOLVED military button id help

[rickbrk]

I found these 2 buttons on what would have been a major route during the Texas independence from Mexico. Would they have been from that time in that area. 1830-1840 central and southern Texas? Button on left says Waterbury manufacturing. One on right says Hortsman Philla.

 

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[cheese]

Civil War era union coat buttons.

 

[kuger]

.....actually those are post Civil War....1870's-

 

[HutSiteDigger]

General Service eagle buttons... Probably from one of the Indian wars that happen Post Civil War or Spanish American War

 

[cheese]

I guess the backmark tells the age?

 

[HutSiteDigger]

Pic 1-3 are of General Service made by hortsman from 1870s-1890s pic 4-5 is Civil War period .. There is a thread on here where CBG explains the differences, it can be easy to over look them.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Cheese wrote:
> I guess the backmark tells the age?

Cheese (and Rickbrk), a button's backmark is usually the "main" clue we use for time-dating the button. But with US Army eagle-buttons, in some cases the same backmark was used from 1860s through the 1880s. So, with THESE eagle-buttons, which date from 1875 to 1902, the main time-dating clue is the presence of a "very high-raised" shield on the eagle's chest. On the 1854 to 1874 ones, the shield does not stand up higher than the eagle's chest. (But note, there is ONE exception to that rule -- an eagle-I button made by R&W Robinson in the 1840s.)

Here's a link to my recent post (mentioned by HutSiteDigger) about that difference, with photos of each type and their time-periods. It is post #5 in the discussion. Y'all might want to Bookmark it for future use.
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/368962-year-button.html#post3517512