Eagle Button Id Please, Ill start my stopwatch....

[Ohio Jerry]

Eagle Button Id Please, I'll start my stopwatch....

From the same 1800's cellar hole that a 1833 LC,1861 Indian Head, and the wick trimmer/snuffer gadget came from, comes an eagle button by the Waterbury Button Co. I've followed a bunch of links including ebay and haven't seemed to be able to positively identify it. Thanks for looking!!
Jerry p.s. are these suspender clips with the button?

 

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[BuckleBoy]

Re: Eagle Button Id Please, I'll start my stopwatch....

1841-1965.

Same backmark the whole time frame.


So I don't know if there's much way to know...but certainly from the style of the eagle it sould be pre-Indian Wars age...  So that leaves 1840's to '70's or so. 


I don't know what you mean by suspenders "with the button"... but that's what they are. And I'm amazed that you found two that match. Were both of them from the same site?



-Buckleboy

 

[Ohio Jerry]

Re: Eagle Button Id Please, I'll start my stopwatch....

1841-1965.

Same backmark the whole time frame.


So I don't know if there's much way to know...but certainly from the style of the eagle it sould be pre-Indian Wars age... So that leaves 1840's to '70's or so.


I don't know what you mean by suspenders "with the button"... but that's what they are. And I'm amazed that you found two that match. Were both of them from the same site?



-Buckleboy

suspender clips are they? they were within ten feet of each other

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Re: Eagle Button Id Please, I'll start my stopwatch....

Civil War Union Eagle? http://www.waterburybutton.com/user-cgi/patterns.cgi?catg=Military&subcatg=Civil War&page=1&id=10604

 

[BuckleBoy]

Re: Eagle Button Id Please, I'll start my stopwatch....

OK. So according to BigCy, they still make the same design--BUT the backmark will not be "Waterbury Button Co." Judging by what you found there, and where you are (a good CW area), it's a good sign that it's a CW eagle, but not definitive. Keep looking for that plate there! If you're on a house site, make Certain you find the trash pit before you're done with the site...


-Buck

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Re: Eagle Button Id Please, I'll start my stopwatch....

OK. So according to BigCy, they still make the same design--BUT the backmark will not be "Waterbury Button Co." Judging by what you found there, and where you are (a good CW area), it's a good sign that it's a CW eagle, but not definitive. Keep looking for that plate there! If you're on a house site, make Certain you find the trash pit before you're done with the site...


-Buck

I guess Waterbury makes modern replicas of their old buttons for Civil War reenactments maybe.

I would say that this find would be an original, whatever it turns out to be, judging by where it was found and the color.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Re: Eagle Button Id Please, I'll start my stopwatch....

OK. So according to BigCy, they still make the same design--BUT the backmark will not be "Waterbury Button Co." Judging by what you found there, and where you are (a good CW area), it's a good sign that it's a CW eagle, but not definitive. Keep looking for that plate there! If you're on a house site, make Certain you find the trash pit before you're done with the site...


-Buck

I guess Waterbury makes modern replicas of their old buttons for Civil War reenactments maybe.

I would say that this find would be an original, whatever it turns out to be, judging by where it was found and the color.

Somebody does. When I reenacted, all those buttons had to come from somewhere--but we had VA state seal buttons, right down to the cuff sized ones. EXPENSIVE little buggards if you damaged one!

 

[ivan salis]

Re: Eagle Button Id Please, I'll start my stopwatch....

the post 1965 "repoduction" waterbury buttons say "cos" --the s means post 1965 made --- with the coins and other suspender clips time frame as a guide -- the button time frame wize could be --- pre civil war to post civil war war era ---1841 to 1865ish -- if it in context with the rest of the items -- being that style did not come out till 1841 * and the latest item you note is 1861 ==ph by the way it a general service button -- the comman everyday soldiers button --- infantry mainly got them -- some got the "I" on the sheild but many just got the plain eagle button like yours