✅ SOLVED Some sort of button?

[DiggerDave99]

I found this is a small plastic button looking thing at an 1850's gold mining site near Sacramento CA. It is thin and bendy and it has a little bit of fabric through the middle of it. Any ideas?

 

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[DCMatt]

Welcome to the forum.

If it is plastic, then it is not from the 1850's. It would be from about 100+ years after that.

What is the fabric? It looks so thin... Is it some kind of cloth?

DCMatt

 

[DiggerDave99]

It's impossible to tell what the fabric is, it's very worn and there isn't very much of it.

 

[gazmuth]

If the plastic is sort of soft and bendable, it seems like I have had these on the backs of buttons/snaps, on either rain gear or covers for camping equipment. Just a fuss, my old eyes aren't as good as they used to be. Hopefully someone has the an answer!