✅ SOLVED Copper button with Crown embossed?

[BVI Hunter]

Found this button - it is "hollow" and the small "eye" used for attaching it came away in my hand. I believe it is copper?

Any help? Is the crown British?

I wonder if its military / naval etc?

thanks!

 

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[GpSnoopy]

Probably a fashion button. Looks like this Domed Crown & Shield one on Waterbury's site.

Domed Crown & Shield - Crowns - Waterbury Button

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

GpSnoopy is on the right track -- it is definitely a "Fashion" button, made for fancy civilian-usage coats/jackets.

Another ID-clue, in addition to the design on the button in GpSnoopy's photo:
"Fashion" buttons were (and still are) often made with a black paint coating, for a different "finish" than shiny brass... and we see remnants of black paint on your button.

You asked if your button has a British crown. Actually, it seems to most closely resemble the Empirial Crown of the Prussian (German) Empire, from the 1800s through the end of that Empire shortly after World War One.

 

[BVI Hunter]

Probably a fashion button. Looks like this Domed Crown & Shield one on Waterbury's site.

Domed Crown & Shield - Crowns - Waterbury Button

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man that's it - amazing!!

 

[BVI Hunter]

GpSnoopy is on the right track -- it is definitely a "Fashion" button, made for fancy civilian-usage coats/jackets.

Another ID-clue, in addition to the design on the button in GpSnoopy's photo:
"Fashion" buttons were (and still are) often made with a black paint coating, for a different "finish" than shiny brass... and we see remnants of black paint on your button.

You asked if your button has a British crown. Actually, it seems to most closely resemble the Empirial Crown of the Prussian (German) Empire, from the 1800s through the end of that Empire shortly after World War One.

the date id what I had in mind - but the Prussian (German) Empire? that throws all my theories out the window!!

thanks all!!

 

[BVI Hunter]

Probably a fashion button. Looks like this Domed Crown & Shield one on Waterbury's site.

Domed Crown & Shield - Crowns - Waterbury Button

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I cant seem to access the Waterbury site - do I have an old button that they are replicating, or do I have a modern button??

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

You don't have to go find the waterburybutton.com website... just click on the red-lettering "live link" in GpSnoopy's post.

Your button is definitely from the 20th-Century. Your side-view photo of your 2-piece button shows its sides are shaped like a deep-dish pizza baking-pan (or a typical dogfood-bowl)... meaning, when viewed in "profile," the vertical sides are flat, and they taper inward at an 80-degree angle. That is a characteristic of 20th-Century buttons.

 

[BVI Hunter]

thanks!!