Another General Service Button?

[BioProfessor]

This must be button time for me. I am cleaning up some finds from some recent hunts and these General Service buttons keep coming out from all the crud. I admit I'm not good with buttons so I need some help. This one kind of throws me because there is no shield and the eagles wings are folded and the tops are uneven. Just looks strange. So any ideas about when this button would have been in service. Backmark shows only two stars. Button is 16mm in diameter. For the the metric challenged like me, that makes it just a tad smaller than a dime.

Thanks for the help.

Daryl

 

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[PBK]

U.S. Navy button, c. 1820's-30's.

 

[BioProfessor]

Damn. Quick and good.

Thanks,

Daryl

 

[PBK]

My pleasure, Professor!

 

[Don in SJ]

Just to add to PBK's response, it looks like a NA 81Bv type in Albert's book or variant: NA 81Bv With 16 five pointed stars. B/m A circle of 8 stars with alternating dots rm. 16mm in diameter.......

It might be a variant, since I cannot see all the stars I should be seeing, and think the word gilt is showing on b/m, but it is close enough

Good find, it always pays to clean the crud off all buttons, even plain flat ones, since the backmark could always be a Political/Partriotic $logan button, or just a darn pretty and unusual designed backmark.....

Don

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Great find! where are finding theselol

 

[BioProfessor]

Hi Don,

You're absolutely correct. My problem is I just got back finds from 5 weeks of hunting in the UK. I've got more crap to clean than Carter had Liver pills. Just alternating between US and UK stuff. At least I got a new Avitar and didn't even have to clean the sucker. Came out of the ground that way.

Who knows what the next round of cleaning will yield. Almost as good as diggin' but not quite.

As far as where they are from, the low country of SC. Close to Charleston.

Daryl

 

[Don in SJ]

Well, you hunted two great areas, I know the reputation of the low country and England, well, I'm jealous. With all those finds I can surely understand being behind in the business of cleaning the local finds.

Don