✅ SOLVED Can't find nothing on this button.

[scavenger1]

I dug this today. Been researching it and keep coming up empty. Does anyone on here know what kind of button it is and the age of it. There's no writing on the back of it. My gut tells me it's a Spanish Colonial Infantry uniform bottom and dates around 1770's. I base that on example "B" in the button chart below because the back of the button is nonexistent and was probably wood or bone (more likely wood). My analysis is just a wild guess. What do you guys think? Please help.

 

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[Red-Coat]

Red-Coat, your insight weighs a lot to me and I'm pretty sure you're correct but before I mark this one solved, I want to drive a little deeper on the "Count Crown" and the "Inverted Triangle" to see if I can date that, I'm sure it will be a waste of my time. Can I ask you (oh and the forum) a quick question? Do you see the little dimples/tiny indentations all over the button, was that for some kind of platting/guilting that they adding like maybe silver platting or bass platting? It's just a little odd to see those dimples all over it I can't help to think it's to hold platting on the button better.

You're welcome, but I don't think I can add much more.

The crown can't really be dated. Heraldically, crowns like that have appeared on buttons with legit coats of arms for nobility for a few hundred years (but most popularly later than the mid-1800s), and on pretentious 'pseudo-livery' buttons that aren't truly heraldic. They were made well into the 20th Century and the 'pseudo' ones in particular are still being made today in large quantity.

I don't think the inverted triangle can be dated either. It doesn't seem to be a true heraldic charge and I've never seen a similar emblem on a coat of arms.

I take the dimples to be purely decorative and not related to adherence of any plating.

 

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