✅ SOLVED Different flat button

[Diggin Dude]

Last week I recovered this heavy flat button with a different style crude shank. I found many colonial flat buttons before but never one like this. I believe it’s from the colonial time period but not sure. I’m looking for any information on this style button, I know it’s tough to provide details on a plain flat button but I thought I’d ask if anyone has seen one like this before.

Thanks for looking and happy hunting.


Quarter for size reference

 

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[FreeBirdTim]

1700's to mid-1800's, based on the info from this website (page 8):

http://www.daacs.org/wp-content/uploads/buttons.pdf

 

[Diggin Dude]

1700's to mid-1800's, based on the info from this website (page 8):

http://www.daacs.org/wp-content/uploads/buttons.pdf

Thank you very much for the reference link ! I see it on page 8. Great button reference I’m gonna bookmark it. Kind regards

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Based on how very-very few of that kind of brass flatbutton we dig in the US, here it is a very rare variation. It is one-piece solid cast brass, with what is called a "drilled shank" instead of a soldered-on wire loop. (The great majority of 1-piece brass flatbuttons are made from rolled sheetbrass, not solid-cast brass.) Based on the time-period of dig sites where it is found, your button seems to be from the late-1600s through the first half of the 1700s. Due to its extreme scarcity, it could be foreign-made, such as French, or Spanish, or perhaps very early American made, at a time when the difficulties involved in EFFECTIVELY soldering/brazing a wire loop onto a button's back had not been solved.

Another TreasureNet member, Retired Fire, recently dug one like yours. You can see it and read the discussion about it (including a link to another interesting discussion where two solid-cast brass drilled-shank flatbuttons appear in the diggers' photos) here:
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/554786-found-flat-button-not-sure-age.html#post5548292

 

[Diggin Dude]

Based on how very-very few of that kind of brass flatbutton we dig in the US, here it is a very rare variation. It is one-piece solid cast brass, with what is called a "drilled shank" instead of a soldered-on wire loop. (The great majority of 1-piece brass flatbuttons are made from rolled sheetbrass, not solid-cast brass.) Based on the time-period of dig sites where it is found, your button seems to be from the late-1600s through the first half of the 1700s. Due to its extreme scarcity, it could be foreign-made, such as French, or Spanish, or perhaps very early American made, at a time when the difficulties involved in EFFECTIVELY soldering/brazing a wire loop onto a button's back had not been solved.

Another TreasureNet member, Retired Fire, recently dug one like yours. You can see it and read the discussion about it (including a link to another intersting discussion where two solid-cast brass drilled-shank flatbuttons appear in the diggers' photos) here:
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/554786-found-flat-button-not-sure-age.html#post5548292

Thank you so much for your reply! I will check The link to the post you mentioned. I had a feeling it was a very old button, never found one like it before.

Happy Hunting

 

[smokeythecat]

Cannonballguy has nailed it. These buttons are very early and hard to find. I think I've found two ever. If that.