Need button ID!

[JustKeepDigging]

What you guys think?

 

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[creskol]

What does the back look like?

 

[JustKeepDigging]

What does the back look like?

Gotta clean it up, I'll post when I get it done

 

[JustKeepDigging]

What does the back look like?

 

[JustKeepDigging]

I found it at a second Seminole war site, found musketballs nearby

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Although your button's front has a Navy motif (a "fouled" anchor), it has what button collectors call an iron self-shank back... meaning, the back itself form's the shank/loop for sewing the button onto clothing. (Holes are pierced in opposite sides of the dome, allowing thread to pass through to attach the button onto cloth.) No actual Navy buttons have a self-shank back. Note the raised dome in the center of your button's back, and compare it with the photo below. That form of self-shank back was invented and patented in the early-1900s, and is still in use today.

 

[CRUSADER]

20th C fashion button.