Button ID: Circa 1812 Eagle

[West Jersey Detecting]

I found this one piece, flat button last week at a "hunted out" site. I think it is around around 16mm, although I did not measure it.

I think it is either an early US Navy button, a Regiment button, or a patriotic "E Plurbus Unum" button... Any ideas?

 

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[Don in SJ]

Assuming it is stars around the perimeter and a spade shaped shield, it is similar to most naval buttons from the 1810-1830 era, but I would lean more towards 1820s than earlier, based on the backmarks of similar buttons. Did not see an exact match in Albert's, but variants of these types of buttons probably abounds.

Don

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

I found this one piece, flat button last week at a "hunted out" site. I think it is around around 16mm, although I did not measure it.

I think it is either an early US Navy button, a Regiment button, or a patriotic "E Plurbus Unum" button... Any ideas?

The "Regiment" buttons which have your button's exact logo are all made of pewter. Yours is brass, so it has the be the early US Navy. Your button appears to be a very slight variation of 16millimeter-button NA-72Av in the Albert button-book. See photos on page 96.

By the way... when I said "exact logo," I mean:
a standing, droop-winged eagle,
surrounded by stars,
"spade" shield at lower right,
button has no raised border around the emblem.
That being said... some very small details within the logo on your button aren't exactly the same as NA-72Av, so I'm saying you've got a very slight variant of it.

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

I found this one piece, flat button last week at a "hunted out" site. I think it is around around 16mm, although I did not measure it.

I think it is either an early US Navy button, a Regiment button, or a patriotic "E Plurbus Unum" button... Any ideas?

The "Regiment" buttons which have your button's exact logo are all made of pewter. Yours is brass, so it has the be the early US Navy. Your button appears to be a very slight variation of 16millimeter-button NA-72Av in the Albert button-book. See photos on page 96.

By the way... when I said "exact logo," I mean:
a standing, droop-winged eagle,
surrounded by stars,
"spade" shield at lower right,
button has no raised border around the emblem.
That being said... some very small details within the logo on your button aren't exactly the same as NA-72Av, so I'm saying you've got a very slight variant of it.

Thanks for the info. I did look at that as a possibility, but as you stated, there are some distinct differences, most notably the NA-72Av has a closed mouth, not the "screaming eagle" mouth as on my specimen. Perhaps your ID is correct, but I see the open mouth types are more apparent on the earlier designs.

Thanks for your help!