✅ SOLVED Button date and ID?

[MCollett]

I found another button in the older area of my permission property. I have never seen this type shank on any of the many buttons I have dug here in Alabama. Feels and looks like lead. Maybe pewter? Nothing visible on the face. Can anyone date and or ID this type button?

 

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[CRUSADER]

That is an odd shank type, I'm going to guess it's not British.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Your button appears to be a cast "white-metal" (not lead) 1-piece flatbutton whose embedded copper or brass or iron wire loop got pulled out of the dome-shaped shank. Made during the second half of the 1700s into the very-early 1800s. It is an uncommon variation, but I've seen a number of them dug at Colonial-era towns such as Fredericksburg VA.

 

[MCollett]

Your button appears to be a cast "white-metal" (not lead) 1-piece flatbutton whose embedded copper or brass or iron wire loop got pulled out of the dome-shaped shank. Made during the second half of the 1700s into the very-early 1800s. It is an uncommon variation, but I've seen a number of them dug at Colonial-era towns such as Fredericksburg VA.

Thank you CG. I saw a few French buttons from the 1700s that had 4 holes on the dome, but none had 2. That is amazing to me that I found it in Alabama. The site dates back to 1834 and I figured there would be some 1700-early 1800 there. Hope that means we can find some more early stuff there!