Can you date this button?

[chacuff]

This was found at an old home site but how old a home site I'm not sure. Hoping someone that is knowledgeable with buttons can speculate on a general date.

It looks like it is silver plated. Might even have had some blue enamel on it. No markings that I can see. I've done little to it other than rinse it off and poke out the holes with a tooth pick.

Thanks for looking guys!

Merry Christmas

Cecil

 

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[Peyton Manning]

maybe, is it busy Friday?

 

[rick67]

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Shank_buttons.jpg

I'm used to looking up older buttons but I found a paragraph that relates to yours.
[By the early 20th century, the prevailing style was much simpler, reflecting the more sedate look of the growing white-collar class. Inexpensive matched shirt buttons for men and women were available in five-and-dime stores around 1910. Plastic buttons became widely available in the 1930s, though most typical shirt buttons were still made of sea shells or other natural materials. World War II brought many advances in plastic technology. Acrylic buttons were actually made from material left over from the manufacture of bomber gun turrets. The button industry converted almost entirely to plastic after the war.]

 

[chacuff]

Yeah but she's a little hesitant...lost her shirt in the last relationship she was in...

 

[chacuff]

Thanks Rick,

Cecil