No coppers Today but most unusual button

[foundation hunter]

Was hoping to find some more coppers today but instead i dug this button with a dog on front,in all my years of detecting i have never dug a button like this,i cant get a backmark off it so i dont know how old it it.

 

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[LuckyDragon]

must go to a uniform of a canie handler in a infantry.

 

[mainer]

I think they call them livery buttons. Not sure of that, somone on here will tell you for sure. Nice one no matter what.

 

[umrgolf]

I think they call them livery buttons. Not sure of that, somone on here will tell you for sure. Nice one no matter what.

I've heard them referred to as sportsman's buttons.. If I remember right, they were popular in the early 19th century and are a welcomed addition to any collection

 

[mainer]

Yeah that rings a bell Jeff. Sounds correct too. Trust me it aint the first time I have been wrong.

 

[umrgolf]

Yeah that rings a bell Jeff. Sounds correct too. Trust me it aint the first time I have been wrong.

who knows im prob wrong

 

[vayank54]

umrgolf is right it's a sportsmans button. They were popular in the mid to late 1800's. I've dug quite a few in civil war camps including one exactly like yours, tin back and all. I dug it in an 1861 camp of the 1st LA.

 

[Marc(NB)]

very nice addiction to your collection

 

[Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.)]

Nice button

 

[CRUSADER]

umrgolf is right it's a sportsmans button. They were popular in the mid to late 1800's. I've dug quite a few in civil war camps including one exactly like yours, tin back and all. I dug it in an 1861 camp of the 1st LA.

I agree a very late 1800s sports button or hunts button, as we call them. I like them all

 

[Woodland Detectors]

It has been said that upper-crust Englishmen had more time for their dogs than for their children. Dogs were vital to the rituals of hunting, which were pleasurable; children made demands, which were tiresome.

What does this have to do with this post? Nothing.
Just thought I'd throw it out there

Nice Sports, hunts or sportsman button!

 

[Gonehunting]

way cool dude.... Haven't seen one like that....wtg

 

[dwayne sueno]

It has been said that upper-crust Englishmen had more time for their dogs than for their children. Dogs were vital to the rituals of hunting, which were pleasurable; children made demands, which were tiresome.

What does this have to do with this post? Nothing.
Just thought I'd throw it out there

Nice Sports, hunts or sportsman button!

very cool button. i've heard what 4-H is saying as well, which is one reason why Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' was such a huge hit.
To think that little bowser could be a terror on the moors...

 

[relic lover]

That is a dog.