Old Button With Sun On It

[secondstar]

Good afternoon everyone, I went back to a farm site that was in operation from the 1770’s probably until around the 1880’s. I’ve been doing “mop ups” of my cellar hole sites with the XP Deus using the factory default Deus Fast program and bumping up the frequency to 25 kHz. I found this button today in a nail infested mess.







The button appears to have the sun on it, and is very delicate, it was a challenge just getting it home intact. If anyone has any thoughts as to how old the button might be, and if it has any historical significance I would greatly appreciate your input. Thanks for looking, good luck and happy hunting.

Mike

 

[smokeythecat]

It's an American style button, due to the way the shank was made. It does not appear military. It's a great design. Put some thinned down Elmer's glue with water on it or let it dry completely and spray some matte Polyurethane on it. I use the poly. Otherwise, the edges will eventually crumble away.

 

[CRUSADER]

Late 18th C.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice find, congrats!

 

[secondstar]

It's an American style button, due to the way the shank was made. It does not appear military. It's a great design. Put some thinned down Elmer's glue with water on it or let it dry completely and spray some matte Polyurethane on it. I use the poly. Otherwise, the edges will eventually crumble away.

Smokey and Crusader, do you have a resource that you could recommend with regards to learning about buttons? I couldn’t tell you a thing about a button (other than the fact that it’s a button) and I feel that it’s important to be able to at least be able to ballpark buttons in order to determine the age of a relic site.

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Gene Mean]

Smokey and Crusader, do you have a resource that you could recommend with regards to learning about buttons? I couldn’t tell you a thing about a button (other than the fact that it’s a button) and I feel that it’s important to be able to at least be able to ballpark buttons in order to determine the age of a relic site.

Real nice button find!

The Alberts Book of Buttons is referenced on Tnet alot. Worth the money.

 

[CRUSADER]

Smokey and Crusader, do you have a resource that you could recommend with regards to learning about buttons? I couldn’t tell you a thing about a button (other than the fact that it’s a button) and I feel that it’s important to be able to at least be able to ballpark buttons in order to determine the age of a relic site.

If you want a cheap one that covers from bronze age to 1840, then get Gordon Bailey 'Buttons & fasteners' or Brian Reads 'Metal Buttons' but that stops at 1700. The books on the US side are very expensive & out of print but depending on what you want will be a good investment.

 

[Hawks88]

Nice save. Congrats

 

[Inspector]

Really nice button, congrats on the save & HH

 

[Trezurehunter]

Very nice button find.

 

[J-ROB]

Have a look at this resource. It's an archaeological cataloging guide that would be used to broadly classify finds for a research database on slavery related sites.Not super detailed but it offers some useful frameworks for dating. And it's a free download.

Opens as a pdf --->http://www.daacs.org/wp-content/uploads/buttons.pdf

I went to grad school for historical archaeology but if I had really tough finds to ID, I'd come right here. Some of youse guys are really amazing at IDs.

Hard to beat crowdsourcing research from a group of knowledgeable diggers. Building one's own mental database is a worthy pursuit but tapping into this collective wisdom is priceless!



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[secondstar]

Thank you very much J-ROB, I’ll be sure to give this a read!