✅ SOLVED Copper / Brass Eagle Button ? : no backmark?

[ToastedWheatie]

Thanks for the help!

Measures 3/4" in diameter.
The raised stars are around the outside, on the side.
I can see no evidence of a backmark.

It is very similar to the Scovell button listed below, but the lack of a mark has me a bit confused. maybe I should clean a little deeper? But with what I have done, I would expect to have seen some remnants of a mark.

Any thoughts?

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

It is definitely an 1832-to-1902 US Army Staff Officer button. Because that type was manufactured for 70 years, we need backmark information to accurately time-date it.

The eagle on it is the 1850s-&-later style. Also, in your photos the button appears to not have the "extra-wide" rim (seen in the time-dating photo you posted) which became popular in the late-1870s onward), so your button more probably dates from the 1850s into the 1870s.

 

[ToastedWheatie]

Thanks for your help. I spent more time toothpicking it, hoping remnants of a backmark would turn up. I ended up catching an edge and seperating the two pieces, so i opened it up.
No stamping on the back piece was ever made.
I see a number of buttons of this type like that.
I wonder why....

Thanks again for your help!

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Some authentic era military buttons do not have a backmark. Im not sure why. I have seen plenty of Great Seal military buttons without backmarks that I believe are authentic..