brianc053
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Hi all, can you please help me with two identifications?
The first one should be pretty easy: It's a flat button and we can read the word "STANDARD" easily and also believe we see "GILT" with our eyes; the "T" and other letters are visible in the upper right of the image. EDIT: with some additional hydrogen peroxide cleaning we're pretty sure we see "TREBLE" and "GILT" and "STANDARD".
Based on reading other posts I believe this is a civilian flat button from the 1810-1840 date range, and if "GILT" the it would have had gold gilding on it. Any corrections or additional info that you can add?
The second item is the mystery. It came out of the hole that was just a foot from the flat button, and from an area that's produced an early 1800's Large Cent and a 1909 Indian Head penny in the last week. When it came out I thought it was a silver button, though it would have been thick for a flat button. But we cleaned it at home, and realized immediately that the middle has a hole not a shank.
In my amateur opinion it looks rather precisely manufactured (the hole in the middle looks perfectly round), so I'm guessing this is relatively modern and nothing special. But before I chalk it up as garbage I thought I would ask your opinions of what it is.
One speculative idea: could it be a decoration off of a saddle? This location was an Allee (an alley in a formal garden or park, bordered by trees or bushes) leading up to a large mansion farmhouse.
Do you think the coating is silver plating? It certainly held up well in soil that has been eating copper...
Thanks for looking!
The first one should be pretty easy: It's a flat button and we can read the word "STANDARD" easily and also believe we see "GILT" with our eyes; the "T" and other letters are visible in the upper right of the image. EDIT: with some additional hydrogen peroxide cleaning we're pretty sure we see "TREBLE" and "GILT" and "STANDARD".
Based on reading other posts I believe this is a civilian flat button from the 1810-1840 date range, and if "GILT" the it would have had gold gilding on it. Any corrections or additional info that you can add?
The second item is the mystery. It came out of the hole that was just a foot from the flat button, and from an area that's produced an early 1800's Large Cent and a 1909 Indian Head penny in the last week. When it came out I thought it was a silver button, though it would have been thick for a flat button. But we cleaned it at home, and realized immediately that the middle has a hole not a shank.
In my amateur opinion it looks rather precisely manufactured (the hole in the middle looks perfectly round), so I'm guessing this is relatively modern and nothing special. But before I chalk it up as garbage I thought I would ask your opinions of what it is.
One speculative idea: could it be a decoration off of a saddle? This location was an Allee (an alley in a formal garden or park, bordered by trees or bushes) leading up to a large mansion farmhouse.
Do you think the coating is silver plating? It certainly held up well in soil that has been eating copper...
Thanks for looking!
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