✅ SOLVED Need help dating this button

[Relic Hunter]

I'm sure this is a Naval button, but is there anyone that could possibly date it. It was dug at 6". It is 1/2" in diameter.

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Your button is a US Navy Chief Petty Officer button. That rank wasn't officially established until 1893, so that date gives you the earliest possible time-range for your button. Unfotunately, its back is damaged/incomplete, so there is no way to narrow down the date-range to the 1890s or any specific part of the 20th-Century.

 

[Relic Hunter]

The back of the button looks like its intact, it has a hole that is thru and thru like where the thread would go or am I mistaken?

 

[got2dig]

Welcome to Tnet. The pic of the back is way out of focus, you may take one more pic and post it. Nice find. HH

 

[Relic Hunter]

I was able to crop it, I hope that helps but if it dont when I was cleaning it the back just desinigrated