Mourning Button

[IronSpike]

Patriot ID'd it as a mourning button in todays find

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,425475.0.html

Although it isn't Cobb's listed GW mourning button the design is very similar to that button and other 'GW funeral era' buttons and cuffs.

http://kirkmitchell.tripod.com/CobbGW/Military.html

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/9640140

Found it in Denmark, but doesn't seem to fit mourning of a king (unless the button dates 1766).

Could this button be a GW funeral era button?

Size 36mm

 

[Bramblefind]

Wow That is a beautiful button! Made me think of a button I found - mine is different style and only 20mm but the design work reminded me somewhat of yours:

I think these Mourning Buttons were made for other reasons besides to commemorate the death of Washington but I haven't done research on them yet.

However I don't think it is far fetched to consider the possibility that yours is GW related. If it was found in the US even more so but being that it was found in Denmark that might lesson the chance for a connection - though still could be....

 

[Bramblefind]

Here's an interesting one from eBay-

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LARGE-URN-BUTTON-DUG-COLONIAL-SITE-/290590481137

 

[IronSpike]

Thanks your input Bramblefind I think you're right that not all 'funeral urn buttons' are GW related. Is your button made of silver, love it

On this link a cuff found in England:

http://www.metaldetectingforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=120&t=10379

Are the urn mourning buttons 'just' a generic design or were they all made/dedicated to a known person?

 

[CRUSADER]

Thanks your input Bramblefind I think you're right that not all 'funeral urn buttons' are GW related. Is your button made of silver, love it

On this link a cuff found in England:

http://www.metaldetectingforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=120&t=10379

Are the urn mourning buttons 'just' a generic design or were they all made/dedicated to a known person?

OK, these were a classical Roman style Urn copied by the rich 'dandy's' that went on the Grand Tours of the 18th C (toured archaeological sites around Italy & Greece). This 'Dandy' Button dates to circa 1780s when these 'Urns' were copied into many types of media, including furniture & garden ornaments etc..

 

[IronSpike]

Thanks your input Bramblefind I think you're right that not all 'funeral urn buttons' are GW related. Is your button made of silver, love it

On this link a cuff found in England:

http://www.metaldetectingforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=120&t=10379

Are the urn mourning buttons 'just' a generic design or were they all made/dedicated to a known person?

OK, these were a classical Roman style Urn copied by the rich 'dandy's' that went on the Grand Tours of the 18th C (toured archaeological sites around Italy & Greece). This 'Dandy' Button dates to circa 1780s when these 'Urns' were copied into many types of media, including furniture & garden ornaments etc..

Thanks for the good explanation and the popularity of the urn design in that era I'll mark it solved as 'dandy mourning button' with only GW relation that it's from the same era