Big gilded and plated Dandy Button ID?

[Wild Colonial Boy]

hello

anywhere i can find good website or reference book for Dandy Buttons?
would love to know the history behind this one

the border is gilded,

and the center is plated silver

 

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[Tpmetal]

i dunno, but thats a beauty

 

[Rookster]

That's a nice one.Congrats

 

[GB1]

nice button

 

[grasshopper]

I'm not sure that one exists.

I would guess the later half of the 18th Century.

 

[Wild Colonial Boy]

thank you

 

[CRUSADER]

1750-80 - Lemon juice it for 5 minutes & nail brush it under running water.

 

[Shiloh]

Rosette? Maybe

 

[A2coins]

Cool find would be interested when some one IDs it Well done

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

This fancy silver plated Dandy Button is a nice find.
Cru has already dated this for you... all I can add is that it looks British in design to me.

Where you dig a relic and the context in which it was found can tell you a great deal about the piece as well.

Dave

 

[CASPER-2]

there are so sooo many designs out there - usually the maker would use/create a particular button for just
one garment- that garment would have 8... 10... 12 of that button design made but it would be the only one with that button design - since most clothes were one of a kind and not mass produced - the Dutch were known for fancy designs on their buttons... in and around the state of NY
long ago a partner and I found a combined 8 large - bout size of yours - around a cellar hole - but its usually hard
to find 2 with the same design from that time period - mine ended up in a button museum

 

[CASPER-2]

Ive never seen nor heard of a book on "dandy" buttons - someone could start a post to ask TH'ers to post up their
better or fancy ones

 

[Wild Colonial Boy]

Thank you