✅ SOLVED Relatively Modern Blazer Button

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Can anyone tell me if this is a relatively modern blazer button or is it possibly 19thc? I found this on an old homestead site that was occupied from approx. 1860 - 1930. Now, I've detected parks and have found modern versions of this button, but this one kinda 'feels' different to me.

It's heavily constructed, thickly cast and it's obviously a two-piece that originally had a metal back, but is it possibly 19thc as opposed to 20thc?

Thank you in advance for your thoughts,
Dave

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Its "heavy duty construction" (strong thick sheetbrass front instead of thin) moves it from the Fashion/Blazer button category into being a British Merchant Navy button, in use from the late-1800s to today, no changes. (The fact that you dug it in Canada supports that ID.) The emblem is almost the same as a British Royal Navy button... it lacks the Brit navy button's Royal Crown above the anchor. Sorry to have to tell you, it's impossible to time-date without its back.
Navy buttons

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Its "heavy duty construction" (strong thick sheetbrass front instead of thin) moves it from the Fashion/Blazer button category into being a British Merchant Navy button, in use from the late-1800s to today, no changes. (The fact that you dug it in Canada supports that ID.) The emblem is almost the same as a British Royal Navy button... it lacks the Brit navy button's Royal Crown above the anchor. Sorry to have to tell you, it's impossible to time-date without its back.

Thanks for your post CBG.

Since I made this post, I found out the button is from the British Merchant Navy c1880, it's not from a dress blazer as previously thought.
The heavy casting and construct is the dead giveaway, if it was a 'dress' button it would've been much lighter and thinner.
Dave

 

[Old Pueblo]

Looks like you found one: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/8x-stone-masons-chisels-vintage-/263356927399?afsrc=1&rmvSB=true

Old English stone masons chisels.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Looks like you found one: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/8x-stone-masons-chisels-vintage-/263356927399?afsrc=1&rmvSB=true

Old English stone masons chisels.

Thank you so much for the link to the eBay ad showing the stone masons tools Old Pueblo!
Here's a pic of a masons chisel and gouge that I found this year along with a US LC and a Columbia suspender badge.
I'll be tumbling the iron tools this winter now that the ground is frozen here in Ontario.

Best of luck to you in Arizona my friend,
Dave

 

[Old Pueblo]

Thank you so much for the link to the eBay ad showing the stone masons tools Old Pueblo!
Here's a pic of a masons chisel and gouge that I found this year along with a US LC and a Columbia suspender badge.
I'll be tumbling the iron tools this winter now that the ground is frozen here in Ontario.

Best of luck to you in Arizona my friend,
Dave

Thanks and dont mention it.