Wolf/dog head button

[andrewt]

Found this button walking around my property after the rain(shank still attached) House was built in 1760.

Any info?

 

[GaRebel1861]

Someone might be able to give you a date if you will post a picture of the back of the button. - Good luck!

 

[Gare]

It is a nice find

 

[oldmxrat]

Very cool button!
Post a pic of the back.

 

[Nathan W]

Awesome button

 

[ncsuwolf]

Found this button walking around my property after the rain(shank still attached) House was built in 1760.

Any info?

In uniform buttons armed forces 1784-1948 vol ii has an appendix at the end dedicated to “sportsman’s buttons”. Can’t find an exact match but several close…..may be a good place to start looking. The back mark may add some more detail. Dates I saw were 1820-1870.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

I'm taking a risk by offering an ID before we see your button's back... which could cancel my ID. Your button SEEMS to be what button-collectors call a "Jacksonian" 2-piece brass button, from the late-1820s into the mid-1830s. Most Jacksonian rims are plain, but yours has a rarely seen "fancy rim."

Based on emblems seen on contemporary British Livery buttons, I'd say the emblem on yours is a wolf head.

The nickname "Jacksonian" comes from their being very popular with the public during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, 1829-37. They are among the first true 2-piece brass buttons... they consist of a regular flatbutton with a separately-made-&-applied rim. The photo attached below shows the applied rim, at about 5 o'clock you'll see a crimping error which reveals that the rim indeed is a separate part and is crimped around the edge of a flatbutton. As the backmark with its British spelling of the word color as colour, the great majority of Jacksonian buttons were made in Britain.

 

[Digger RJ]

Found this button walking around my property after the rain(shank still attached) House was built in 1760.

Any info?

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[andrewt]

Found this button walking around my property after the rain(shank still attached) House was built in 1760.

Any info?

Found this button walking around my property after the rain(shank still attached) House was built in 1760.

Any info?

 

[Gene Mean]

You might be able to clean that back up with a toothpick at a steep angle. Rub the button with the side of the toothpick basically. That might reveal some wording as to what TheCannonballGuy is referring. That loop should give a date range. Good picture.

 

[ncsuwolf]

You might be able to clean that back up with a toothpick at a steep angle. Rub the button with the side of the toothpick basically. That might reveal some wording as to what TheCannonballGuy is referring. That loop should give a date range. Good picture.

I don’t see any lettering, but to your point it could be hiding under the “patina”. Also, to my untrained eye that doesn’t look like what cannonballguy described (flat button with a decorative ring). Unless the angle is wrong I see the shank coming through the back rather than be soldered to. Button folks please correct me if I’m incorrect.

 

[Gene Mean]

From prior threads

 

[Trezurehunter]

Neat old button.