Button ID Please

[Caintuk]

Found this unusual button at a campsite that was used by both Union and confederate, and was the homesite of a very wealthy plantation owner. Never seen this type before, found many union buttons and flat buttons here. Any ideas?

 

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[lairmo]

More pics from the back? and from the side for thickness please...

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

I'm not seeing a button, depending on what's on the front, I'm thinking it's a skirt hem weight.

Dave

 

[Caintuk]

No, it isn't a hem weight. It is definetly a button, the back crumbled in my hands when I pulled it out of the ground. I hope these pics will shed better light. I apologize for the orientation, Every time I upload a pic, it rotates 90 degrees.

 

[nkellam22]

Given that the back was most likely iron I would say early to mid 20th century, civilian.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

No, it isn't a hem weight. It is definetly a button, the back crumbled in my hands when I pulled it out of the ground. I hope these pics will shed better light. I apologize for the orientation, Every time I upload a pic, it rotates 90 degrees.

Now that I've seen the back, I feel that it is a button.
I agree with nkellam, late19th - early-20thc in date as well.

Thanks very much for the follow up,
Dave