Ben, pardon me please, but... Jacksonian buttons were never made with an iron back. Actually, they didn't have a "back" part at all. A Jacksonian button was always a brass 1-PIECE flatbutton with a separately-made narrow flat (or flat-ish) ring crimped over the flatbutton's button's edge.
The info which follows is for anybody here who doesn't already know it:
The photo below shows one which is missing the applied flat ring, but you can see the absence of gold gilt on the front where the ring's edge was, and the recess around the back's edge to accommodate the ring. The other photo shows one which is missing a little bit of the ring's back side, revealing the recess it fit into.
Partner, your button is the mid-1800s brass 2-piece equivalent of a modern-era Fashion button. If the design on the front is floral (as yours appears to be), button-collectors call it a "flower button." What's on yours looks like an Orchid, but that's just my interpretation. Other folks may see something else, and might be right.
Ben, pardon me please, but... Jacksonian buttons were never made with an iron back. Actually, they didn't have a "back" part at all. A Jacksonian button was always a brass 1-PIECE flatbutton with a separately-made narrow flat (or flat-ish) ring crimped over the flatbutton's edge.
The info which follows is for anybody here who doesn't already know it:
The photo below shows one which is missing the applied flat ring, but you can see the absence of gold gilt on the front where the ring's edge was, and the recess around the back's edge to accommodate the ring. The other photo shows one which is missing a little bit of the ring's back side, revealing the recess it fit into.
Partner, your button is the mid-1800s brass 2-piece equivalent of a modern-era Fashion button. If the design on the front is floral (as yours appears to be), button-collectors call it a "flower button." What's on yours looks like an Orchid, but that's just my interpretation. Other folks may see something else, and might be right.
