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Cadet button help needed, pictures added
This may be the wrong place for this post but I need some help with a button. Does anyone have a picture of the back of an 1828 US Military Academy cadet button? The button is 3/4" concave 1-piece with Scovills/Treble Gilt backmark. I think I may have one but there is no "Cadet" on the front. I will try to get some pictures tomorrow. The button front is not in the best shape. The backmark is legible and there is fancy scroll work around the shank area. Mine is also missing the shank.
The thing that puzzles me more is the button dates to 1828 according to Alberts book but McGuinn and Bazelons book puts the Scovills/Treble Gilt backmark between 1840-1850. I guess it could have been made in the early 1840s before 2-piece buttons.
It is listed as SU3 in Alberts book.
This may be the wrong place for this post but I need some help with a button. Does anyone have a picture of the back of an 1828 US Military Academy cadet button? The button is 3/4" concave 1-piece with Scovills/Treble Gilt backmark. I think I may have one but there is no "Cadet" on the front. I will try to get some pictures tomorrow. The button front is not in the best shape. The backmark is legible and there is fancy scroll work around the shank area. Mine is also missing the shank.
The thing that puzzles me more is the button dates to 1828 according to Alberts book but McGuinn and Bazelons book puts the Scovills/Treble Gilt backmark between 1840-1850. I guess it could have been made in the early 1840s before 2-piece buttons.
It is listed as SU3 in Alberts book.
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