🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Stamped Brass Eagle Button/Pate

[cannonball]

I found this 4o mm piece of stamped brass on an late 18th Century Mill site yesterday. It has New York on the bottom, IMROVE above the eagle and I'm not sure what's on top. Any clues?

 

[The Rebel]

Looks like it says this.

PRO. WAKES
IMPROV.
NEW YORK

Guessing is says:
Professor Wakes
Improved
New York

 

[villagenut]

Professor wakefields improved

 

[The Rebel]

Solved? So what is it from?

 

[cannonball]

Solved? So what is it from?

 

[ticndig]

yes do tell, what is it?

 

[cannonball]

yes do tell, what is it?

Still UNSOLVED!

 

[ticndig]

Whatever it is it looks old with that drooped wing eagle. I have buttons that look like that from the war of 1812 but nothing I've seen with that writing. let's see the back for more clues.

 

[cannonball]

Whatever it is it looks old with that drooped wing eagle. I have buttons that look like that from the war of 1812 but nothing I've seen with that writing. let's see the back for more clues.

Here is a pic. of the back along with a few other trinkets found at the same site

 

[JohnDroid]

I marked the thread as resolved, I was testing some stuff yesterday. We need to get more people in the habit of doing it. I've unmarked it solved.

 

[Almy]

Most of it looks like 1800s stuff all right. Lighter pictures might help ID.

 

[cannonball]

Most of it looks like 1800s stuff all right. Lighter pictures might help ID.

I found this 4o mm piece of stamped brass on an late 18th Century Mill site yesterday. It has New York on the bottom, IMROVE above the eagle and I'm not sure what's on top. Any clues?

Thomas Wakelam was a music engraver in New York in the 1850s