🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Any idea on this button

[Smilodon]

Found this button with along with some flat buttons and an half dime today. Anyone know anything about this button. Thanks

 

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[poetsgarden]

Possibly a Scovills Brass Lyre Harp button.....Joe McDonough

 

[fyrffytr1]

I think it is a civilian flower design button from the 1820s-1830s

 

[devldog]

Great Save on this nice looking button.

 

[CRUSADER]

lemon juice for 10 mins & nail brush it under running water should help bring out the flowers/grapes or whatever they are.

 

[Bramblefind]

This doesn't seem to be exact but there are a lot of similarities and maybe your button is a smaller size scale of this design? This button is said to be "just under 1 inch." Also Scovills.

Golden Age Beauty | #30078058

This elegant button has a woven background with a cartouche on the top that consists of two joined, flowing urns at the bottom that end in two floral sprays at the top. It is backmarked Scovills Extra

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Generally, a backmark saying Scovills is from 1840-50, when that company used the name Scovills & Co. (It became the Scovill Manufacturing Company in late-1850.) But I have seen some 1820s/30s CUFF-SIZE (15-16mm) ONE-PIECE brass buttons with the Scovills (plural) name. Apparently, the company's full lengthy name in the 20s & 30s (such as JML & WH Scovill / Waterbury) was too long to fit on a cuff-size 1-piece button, so something short-&-simple like Scovills Extra was used. It seems most button scholars think Scovill was no longer making cuff 1-piece brass buttons in the 1840s, when the company name was Scovills.

In summary... I agree with Fyrffytr1, your find is from the 1820s/30s, despite having Scovills in the backmark.

 

[BuckleBoy]

I think it is a civilian flower design button from the 1820s-1830s

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