✅ SOLVED Can I get a little button help

[HuntinDog]

I got lucky and found my first CW Eagle Dragoon button. We don't find a lot of CW stuff out here on the West coast. Dug this button in a 1850s gold rush camp and there were also CW troops in the area. My problem is I can't make much out of the back mark to narrow the date better. What I think I can make out looks like there is --- ATLIEN and the end of another word ---RYN ?? I can't tell how many letters there are in either. If any of this matches up to something it would be great to know. Thanks for your help.

 

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[fyrffytr1]

It may be "Horstmann & Allien/NY". Allien joined with Horstmann in 1850 and they stayed in business until 1877 when he continued alone. Henry V. Allien was in business from 1877 until 1948.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Expanding on the information provided by Fyrfftyr1:

Your button has what button-collectors call an "RMDC" backmark, meaning, Raised Marking in a Depressed Channel.

Although Mr. Henry V. Allien (note the double-L) was a partner in the Horstmann firm from 1850 until 1877, the company stopped using an RMDC backmark by 1865.

In 1861, the US Army redesignated its Dragoon regiments as Cavalry .

So, your US Dragoons "eagle-D" button with an RMDC backmark saying "Horstmann & Allien NY" would only have been manufactured from 1850 through 1860.

 

[HuntinDog]

SOLVED...
Thank you for your help.

HH