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TheCannonballGuy
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RtGermain, I see that's your very first post at TreasureNet. So... welcome to T-Net's "What Is It?" forum... which is the best place on the internet to get unknown objects CORRECTLY identified.
Your find is what button-collectors call a 1-piece brass "flatbutton." It is called a 1-piece button because the loop is not counted as a piece. (See the drawing attached below, showing 1, 2, and 3-piece button construction.) It is called a flatbutton because... well, that's obvious.
By the way... since you are new here, I should mention, you can (usually, but not absolutely always) enlarge a picture in a post at T-Net by clicking once on the picture. Also, sometimes, if you click on the enlarged picture, you'll get a super-enlarged version. Try clicking on the drawing attached below.
Time-dating your find:
Brass 1-piece flatbuttons which have no backmark (maker/dealer's identification or "quality" mark) stamped into the button's back date from the mid-1700s into the 1830s. After that time, they fell out of favor with the public due to the advent of inexpensive machine-made "ornate" 2-piece brass buttons.
Somebody will probably ask, so here's an after-posting edit with additional info:
Brass 1-piece flatbuttons whose backmark is written in raised lettering date from "about" 1790 into the 1830s. Ones with an indented-lettering backmark (or combination of raised and indented lettering) date from about 1810 into the 1830s. Those date ranges are based on evidence from excavated MILITARY UNIT buttons which can be reliably time-dated.
Advice for your future posts in the What Is It? forum:
Please go to your T-Net member profile page and add your location (country, state/province, city), because knowing the country and state (or province, etc) where the unknown object was found can be important information to help us Identification Helpers correctly identify it.
Your find is what button-collectors call a 1-piece brass "flatbutton." It is called a 1-piece button because the loop is not counted as a piece. (See the drawing attached below, showing 1, 2, and 3-piece button construction.) It is called a flatbutton because... well, that's obvious.
By the way... since you are new here, I should mention, you can (usually, but not absolutely always) enlarge a picture in a post at T-Net by clicking once on the picture. Also, sometimes, if you click on the enlarged picture, you'll get a super-enlarged version. Try clicking on the drawing attached below.
Time-dating your find:
Brass 1-piece flatbuttons which have no backmark (maker/dealer's identification or "quality" mark) stamped into the button's back date from the mid-1700s into the 1830s. After that time, they fell out of favor with the public due to the advent of inexpensive machine-made "ornate" 2-piece brass buttons.
Somebody will probably ask, so here's an after-posting edit with additional info:
Brass 1-piece flatbuttons whose backmark is written in raised lettering date from "about" 1790 into the 1830s. Ones with an indented-lettering backmark (or combination of raised and indented lettering) date from about 1810 into the 1830s. Those date ranges are based on evidence from excavated MILITARY UNIT buttons which can be reliably time-dated.
Advice for your future posts in the What Is It? forum:
Please go to your T-Net member profile page and add your location (country, state/province, city), because knowing the country and state (or province, etc) where the unknown object was found can be important information to help us Identification Helpers correctly identify it.
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