Need some button help

[edlynne]

Found flat button that is about the size of a nickel, the front is blank but on the back it appears to have a ring of stars. Long short that someone might have seen one before. Thanks in advance.

 

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[fyrffytr1]

Even if the front is blank, please post a picture of it. I would also like to see a side view.Based on what I see in your picture I think it may be the back to a two or three piece button.

 

[edlynne]

Here are the two other pictures. Thanks

 

[fyrffytr1]

I am pretty sure that is the back to a two or three piece button. I am drawing a blank on the star backmark.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Pardon me please, but I believe it isn't the back part of a 2- or 3-piece button. If it was, the raised rim would be pointing away from the side with the backmark. See the drawing below, from the Albert button-book. So it's a 1-piece button, though a rather strange one. There are some late-1700s-to-early-1800s British/American brass 1-piece buttons whose backmark is a circle of "raised-mark" stars with some intervening punctuation. One example is Albert-book button NA-17A, an early US Navy brass 1-piece button. Its backmark is simply 12 six-point "raised" stars.

 

[edlynne]

Thanks Cannonball guy, would you have a picture of the NA-17A button. This button does have a circle of "raised-mark" stars with some intervening punctuation also.

 

[filmiracl]

Definitely not a piece of a button but a whole button. And I don't think it's all that strange... I have a number of buttons that have that form (with that lip on it.) As for what's on the back, it's most likely just a generic backmark. I'll have to go through mine and see what I can make out.

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Edlynne asked:
"Thanks Cannonball guy, would you have a picture of the NA-17A button?"

Sorry, no, I don't.

 

[fyrffytr1]

Here is a picture of NA-17A from Albert's book.

 

[edlynne]

Thanks fyrttytr1, I would like to see backmark that like mine.

 

[fyrffytr1]

Thanks fyrttytr1, I would like to see backmark that like mine.

Albert's doesn't show the backmark and none of my other references do either.

 

[edlynne]

Thanks for the help