An old large flat button...

Also found this at the same site.

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How deep was that Aaron?

My guess would be pre-1830's.

It wasnt deep, less than 5"

Wow! Thanks Tom!

If it has no image on the front, it is what we call a flat button. They are usually the size of a nickle. We find these at cellar holes and generally date them as 1820. If yours is larger (like a quarter) it's probably older than 1820. Some of them can get into the mid 1700's. The design on the back is just a design the manufacturer picked. There are all kinds of wreaths and eagles and crowns on different buttons, along sometimes with gilt, double gilt, treble gilt, orange colour, etc... Hope this helps.



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Thanks!
I have a couple of books on military buttons from the 1700's to the 1800's, and would like to get another for civilian types like the one I found.
Would Alberts Button Book have these old ones in it?

very common button from the federal period....nice find.....pound on that site might be some Spanish silver in there if you are in the South especially...


Keith

Aaron Wrote:
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> Thanks!
> I have a couple of books on military buttons from
> the 1700's to the 1800's, and would like to get
> another for civilian types like the one I found.
> Would Alberts Button Book have these old ones in
> it?

Albert's is a good book to have but does not get into any buttons that do not have a designed front. Those type of plain buttons are just civilian buttons and are just generally identified by time frames. They could have been produced for as many years as they were fashionable. I don't know of any book that can specifically date them. Size usually gives most of them away, as you wouldn't be caught dead wearing the same buttons that grandpa wore, once they were out of style lol.