Button I.d.

[DWA]

Anyone have any idea what this is from?

 

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[grasshopper]

posting a picture or describing the back would help ID this button

 

[DWA]

Um...I did post pic of front and back ?

 

[DWA]

Try it again

 

[vpnavy]

Interesting button DWA!

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Um...I did post pic of front and back ?

Is it the same on both sides?

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

No photo showing the button's back is visible when I view this discussion-thread.

The button's emblem, a wreath below several stars, immediately made me think it is a rivet-button. When you posted the second photo, showing the button "stands up" almost vertically on its own, that tended to confirm it is a rivet-button even without seeing its back. (As I said, no backview photo shows in this thread on my computer.)

Another term for rivet-button is a "tack-button." Here's a photo showing a (modernday) sales-packet of rivet-buttons/tack-buttons whose emblem differs from your button only in having 5 stars instead of 3 stars.

 

[DWA]

Interesting. ..I dug it at a old site that we have found a va button a nd a eagle I button at. It seems to be period based on its condition and it is made of brass. ....

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Insofar as is known to us civil war button collectors, "rivet-buttons" did not exist until the final quarter of the 1800s. At that time, they start showing up on overalls... most notably, on Trainmen's overalls, whose rivet-button shows a railroad passenger-car or locomotive engine.

 

[DWA]

Thank you for looking cannonballguy! I have dug 41 buttons at a colonial site in the last two weeks ( some very nice) but this was a little different ! and not as old as iv been digging, and just a few hundred yds away.. VA seal button, Eagle I button and a nice Breast plate