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Howdy Folks. I recovered an old pewter flat button from an old sight. I think this might be my first old pewter flat button. Any ideas on it's age would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for the help.

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Although there is no very-exact match for it in the chart, according to the button-dating chart below, originally posted by SteelHeadWill, your pewter button with wire loop embedded in a "mound," dates from about 1760 to 1790. Your button differs in lacking either a mold-seam or spin-marks on its back, and it has a brass wire loop instead of an iron loop. But it appears to have a lathe-spun design (multiple tiny concentric grooves) on its front... which might mean 1760 to 1785, only a 5-year difference in its time-period.
 

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Although there is no very-exact match for it in the chart, according to the button-dating chart below, originally posted by SteelHeadWill, your pewter button with wire loop embedded in a "mound," dates from about 1760 to 1790. Your button differs in lacking either a mold-seam or spin-marks on its back, and it has a brass wire loop instead of an iron loop. But it appears to have a lathe-spun design (multiple tiny concentric grooves) on its front... which might mean 1760 to 1785, only a 5-year difference in its time-period.

Just what I was needing. Thanks CG.
 
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Congrat's to you on the find of the pewter button. Great find.
 
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