Button with face - SOLVED

[Chitlin]

This is about the size of a dime...you can barely make out the face on the front. The back you can clearly see the "extra" but I cant cipher any thing else....any ideas?

 

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[Digginman]

Re: Button with face

Compare it to a modern dime. Looks like FDR.

DM

 

[nhbenz]

Re: Button with face

100 or so years too old to FDR in my opinion.

 

[RELICDUDE07]

Re: Button with face

Could be a old coin button.This is one, on a colonial web page .. Great find

 

[Chitlin]

Re: Button with face

Thanks for the responses... but I mislead yall on the exact size. I realized it is a fair bit smaller than a dime. The faces do resemble one another except for the neck line is different. I think the dude on the button has on a coat and maybe curly hair... and sorry for the flash on the dime...

 

[RELICDUDE07]

Re: Button with face

Yes ,i know its not the same button But may help you in your search for it .. I see now,I thought it was the other button without the shank..It's not as old as the coin button ..Looks around 1830s to 1850s to me.With the (extra back mark).. goodluck

 

[sanford.]

Re: Button with face

Kinda looks like Napoleon ...hatless of course.

 

[randazzo1]

Re: Button with face

know idea what it is, but its very cool.

 

[Chitlin]

Re: Button with face

After cleaning the back up a little, I can clearly make out.... *EXTRA* I . H . & . S

Weird they have a "dot" on either side of the "&" symbol but not after the "S". I'm not having any luck searching for the backmark.If I get a clearer face picture I'll post it.

Once again, thanks for all the help.

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Re: Button with face

IH&S =Industrial Health and Safety. I know that there is an official title in Canada, but I am not sure if there is one here in the US. Is it possible this was an official's ID button in the mid - late 1800's?

If you look closely at the collar, it looks to me like a Civil War uniform.

Nice find!

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Button with face

Kinda looks like Napoleon ...hatless of course.

Yeah thats my guess too.

 

[PBK]

Re: Button with face

I'll guess Lafayette, as depicted on buttons issued c. 1824-25:

http://historical.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=96061&Lot_No=27092&src=pr

Could the backmark be "L. H. & S."? if so, that would be Leavenworth, Hayden & Scovill (c. 1811-27), who made many of the Layfayette buttons.

Can't post pics due to copyright, but this looks extremely similar to the Lafayette medallion button shown on p. 414 of Albert's book
(#PC 31).

 

[Montana Jim]

Re: Button with face

I cleaned up that picture of Napoleon...

 

[Montana Jim]

Re: Button with face

Also... I think that back mark is "L" H & S...

LEVENWORTH, HAYDEN & SCOVILL 1811-1827

Update: Never mind... PBK posted it already... I was too busy fixing the Napolean button to see it... LMAO

 

[PBK]

Re: Button with face

Update: Never mind... PBK posted it already... I was too busy fixing the Napolean button to see it... LMAO

Thank heaven for multitasking, MJ... otherwise I'd never get in on these ID threads once you've spotted 'em!

 

[nhbenz]

Re: Button with face

Nice button! Good job on the ID PBK. Jim, you did a dynamite job of cleaning up the photo.
Tice's seems to list this particular mark (*L.H. & S* / EXTRA) as being only from 1824-1827. As always, I could be wrong.

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Button with face

I cleaned up that picture of Napoleon...

Oh well my radar was a little off today. I will have to go in for a repair.

 

[Chitlin]

Re: Button with face



I knew yall would come through, and having fun too....PBK, does your middle intitial stand for "button"?

This site is a treasure of info....

Chitlin

 

[slingchine]

Re: Button with face

Good job PBK, as always

 

[Chitlin]

Re: Button with face

After reading about the Lafayette medallion button, I saw something mentioning the "&" symbol is backwards...Which it is on this button and I didn't pick up on that either (or the I being an L ).

I'm going with the 1824 Lafayette medallion button. What does it take to get a check mark solved status?