Button?

[Garabaldi]

Any guesses on this one? Cuff link?

 

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[Iron Patch]

Pewter button, oldie!

 

[Garabaldi]

Pewter button, oldie!

Thank you Patch.
Any idea of an age range Patch.

 

[Iron Patch]

Pewter button, oldie!

Thank you Patch.
Any idea of an age range Patch.

Colonial... I'd say it's 1700s.

 

[Garabaldi]

Awesome, thanks again.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Please refer to my cleaning button post in the "Cleaning and Preservation" section of the forum. Without applying something to the pewter, pewter relics will crumble away to nothing. I can already see some rim loss on the button.

True, this button is not worth much, but you'll be thankful you had the practice when you find a real High Dollar pewter button.


Best Wishes,



Buckles

 

[Garabaldi]

Thank you Buckleboy. I will check it out. What makes a pewter button worth more than another?

 

[vayank54]

Please refer to my cleaning button post in the "Cleaning and Preservation" section of the forum. Without applying something to the pewter, pewter relics will crumble away to nothing. I can already see some rim loss on the button.

True, this button is not worth much, but you'll be thankful you had the practice when you find a real High Dollar pewter button.


Best Wishes,



Buckles

Sometimes it helps to keep them damp while you are still digging too. I dug a pewter button with a star in a civil war camp years ago. Not thinking I put it in the plastic coin tube I keep to put buttons in. I had cotton in the tube to keep whatever I dug from getting beat around to much. When I got home the button had dried out and started coming apart. All you could really tell is that it was a button. If i had dampened the cotton that button might now have come apart

 

[BuckleBoy]

Please refer to my cleaning button post in the "Cleaning and Preservation" section of the forum. Without applying something to the pewter, pewter relics will crumble away to nothing. I can already see some rim loss on the button.

True, this button is not worth much, but you'll be thankful you had the practice when you find a real High Dollar pewter button.


Best Wishes,



Buckles

Sometimes it helps to keep them damp while you are still digging too. I dug a pewter button with a star in a civil war camp years ago. Not thinking I put it in the plastic coin tube I keep to put buttons in. I had cotton in the tube to keep whatever I dug from getting beat around to much. When I got home the button had dried out and started coming apart. All you could really tell is that it was a button. If i had dampened the cotton that button might now have come apart

I agree. I always make sure I have a ziploc baggie for a good pewter button find. That will keep it from drying out. Ziploc and then down in a large plastic medicine bottle.

 

[Garabaldi]

Good suggestions Vayank.
Just checked out your post on cleaning Buckleboy. Will do what you said. Thank you very much.

 

[vayank54]

Good idea buckleboy never thought about a ziploc bag.

 

[Garabaldi]

I didn't no they made buttons out of pewter. :P

 

[vayank54]

I didn't no they made buttons out of pewter. :P

Yep they did most are 1700's but they can go later. Heck I think the even made pewter buttons for dresses on up into the 1900's. I might be wrong on that though.