Some buttons-pewter sunburst, Hanover Make, & a tombac w/ a raised dot on front.

[DirtyMike]

Some buttons-pewter sunburst, Hanover Make, & a tombac w/ a raised dot on front.

Here are a few buttons I have always wondered if anyone knew anything about. And since I am snowed in under 34 inches and getting about 16 more right now i have some time on my hands.

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Some buttons-pewter sunburst, Hanover Make, & a tombac w/ a raised dot on front.

Top two - Tombac circa 1790s.

Bottom - modern

 

[BioProfessor]

Re: Some buttons-pewter sunburst, Hanover Make, & a tombac w/ a raised dot on front.

Top two sometimes referred to as a nipple button.

Daryl

 

[Don in SJ]

Re: Some buttons-pewter sunburst, Hanover Make, & a tombac w/ a raised dot on front.

Top two sometimes referred to as a nipple button.

Daryl

Daryl, the top two are not nipple buttons, those buttons are entirely different and date from the mid1600s. I am currently researching those buttons known as dimple/pimple/nipple in hopes of finally solving one of my unsolved What Is It. (Possible nipple button mold)

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,58354.0.html

Don

 

[BioProfessor]

Re: Some buttons-pewter sunburst, Hanover Make, & a tombac w/ a raised dot on front.

I know that. That why I said that they are sometimes called nipple buttons. People find them and that's what they look like and they call them that.

Sorry for the confusion but that's life in the field.

Daryl