ring and button in my back yard

[rich f]

me and my wife just bought a house its 115 years old good size yard so after alittle ear chewing from the wife i talked her into letting me do alittle detecting for 1 hour this morning and a couple nice finds silver ring nice button and a charm maybe i cant wait to see what is hiding here in this yard..can some one give me alittle info on button

 

[duggap]

I may be all wet, but I think you have a pretty neat button there. The back mark would indicate it was made between 1850 and 1860. The man on horse looks like, but not exact, a button for Zachary Taylor. See if you can read what looks to be written on the face of the button.

 

[CoilyGirl]

You will have hours of fun in that yard digging up all kinds of goodies. What kind if stone is in that ring?

 

[rich f]

the button say USA on top and PODon bottom,and i think its a emerald in the ring but its pretty worn

 

[park pirate]

Cool button, vary nice ring..

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

The "charm" you found is actually a late-1800s to early-1900s Shoebutton-Cover. The attachment on the back of yours is the earlier version of the 1922-Patent version in the image below.

Your button is the latter-1800s version of US Postal Service button. It is shown as button FD-61A in the "Federal [Government] Departments" section of the button book by Alphaeus H. Albert. The "POD" stands for Post Office Department. It was renamed Postal Service in the 20th Century.

According to its EXACT backmark, your button was manufactured sometime between 1870 and 1920. Because there are so many slight variations in Scovill backmarks, the McGuinn-&-Bazelon book on button backmark dating includes photos of various Scovill backmarks, telling the specific time-period of each version. Note that your button's Scovill backmark has a small (lower-case) letter o in Co. That means it was manufactured sometime between 1870 and 1920. The name of the book is "American Military Button Makers And Dealers; Their Backmarks & Dates."

 

[rich f]

WOW thank you for the info