✅ SOLVED Old button with crown

[rastinirv]

Found this button today. Looks pretty old and it's pretty crusty. The back is beyond help. But I can make out a small crown at the top of the design and I'm not sure what the design elements are below the crown. Any help is much appreciated! Thanks. Also found my first gold ringtoday (mostly silver, but still!). Putting that in today's finds.

 

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[HutSiteDigger]

Maybe CannonBallGuy knows this off the top of his head, but if that doesn't pan out is there anyway you can clean the back of the button too see a Back-Mark? thanks!

 

[rastinirv]

Maybe CannonBallGuy knows this off the top of his head, but if that doesn't pan out is there anyway you can clean the back of the button too see a Back-Mark? thanks!

It's got a really hard crust that I think I won't be able to get through without a hammer and chisel, so no back mark unfortunately

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Looks like a 20th century steel back, self shank, fashion blazer button. I doubt it has a backmark.

 

[HutSiteDigger]

Maybe something similar to this type button:

 

[Breezie]

Maybe something similar to this type button:

Yeppers, a coat/blazer button. Breezie

 

[rastinirv]

Yeah, Hutsite, I think you found it. Thanks. Amazing how patina can make something look much older than it is.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

The rusted iron back on your button is a mid-20th-Century-to-present version of self-shank back. (The term "self-shank" refers to a 2-piece button's back which itself forms a shank/tunnel for the thread -- it doesn't have a separately-made loop for the thread.) See photo below, showing the version of self-shank back your button has.

I agree with Bigcypresshunter and Breezie, your button is from a civilian-clothing coat or blazer. The emblem on it is a modern-era imitation of an antique British Livery button, showing a coronet (not crown) above a Nobility-family's crest/coat-of-arms.

 

[rastinirv]

The rusted iron back on your button is a mid-20th-Century-to-present version of self-shank back. (The term "self-shank" refers to a 2-piece button's back which itself forms a shank/tunnel for the thread -- it doesn't have a separately-made loop for the thread.) See photo below, showing the kind of self-shank back your button has.

I agree with Bigcypresshunter and Breezie, your button is from a civilian-clothing coat or blazer. The emblem on it is a modern-era imitation of an antique British Livery button, showing a coronet (not crown) above a Nobility-family's crest/coat-of-arms.

Thanks for the comment, CannonballGuy