VERY COOL!! SPANISH LOOP SHANK BUTTON

[tokens70]

Dug this spanish loop shank button in an area where the spanish are known to have been. It is very crude, with a very off center shank, heavy cast brass. It dates to 1785 to 1795 period. Thanks for looking, Chris

 

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[tokens70]

Intendencia, ca. 1785-1795
This classification's members have cast brass bodies with thick, looped and cut brass or copper wire eyes unceremoniously brazed or soldered to the buttons' backs. Examples are flattened in profile and vary in thickness from thin to robust. This typology represents a very late unmarked button form that immediately preceded and overlapped the period of the introduction of inscribed Spanish military buttons in the 1790s

Figured this may make it a little more interesting, please see pic.

 

[piratejoe]

Cool! Did you find it on the "Treasure Coast" maybe?
I think I have seen them around that area.

 

[tokens70]

Joe, Thanks for the reply This button was dug in the panhandle.