✅ SOLVED Button Help Please!

[Old Dude]

Hi all. Got out for a few hunts today. Found this button on the last hunt in a corn field that sits along a very old road. Was a toll road around the turn of the 19th century at least. Do not know exactly when it originated. The button is 25 mm and a magnet does not stick to it at all. I see no back mark. When I got it home and cleaned it a bit, I could see gold colored gilding. The motif is not clear to me either. Maybe some sort of flower but definitely a plant of some sort. Hope you experts can recognize it. Thanks for looking.

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

The emblem on your button appears to be a cluster of grapes, with some vine-leaves. Thus, it is a Civilian-usage button, not Military. Because it is a brass 2-piece button, is goldplated, and it appears to have a circular depressed channel on the back around its thread-loop, it dates from approximately the very-late-1820s through the 1860s.

 

[Old Dude]

Thank you Sir! You are such an asset here!

 

[Old Dude]

At The CBG's request, I have tried cleaning the back a bit more. These pics show what might be "WP......". I have tried a negative of the image and no more detail is evident.

 

[Old Dude]

Thanks to The CBG for all the identifying info and also to Steve in Pa for posting pics of identical button he had found with clearly legible back marks. I consider this to be solved. Thanks to all for looking and good luck hunting!