Eagle button Id

[rvrpilot]

This button was recovered here in Illinois on a old home site,I have seen simular ones on t-net and are said to be Revolutionary war peroid buttons,I have recovered 1 other rev. button in the county that I live in, that I had ID'ed here on t-net as rev. naval button.The only back mark is super fine quality,its about the size of a half dime.
Rvrpilot

 

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[Woodland Detectors]

Good stuff guys. Here's my friend Bill's comment.


Hello Mike,

It is Mexican and probably came home as a souvenir from the Mexican War.

Kind regards,

William Leigh www.civilwarbuttons.com phone: (540)338-7367

 

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[Iron Patch]

Good stuff guys. Here's my friend Bill's comment.


Hello Mike,

It is Mexican and probably came home as a souvenir from the Mexican War.

Kind regards,

William Leigh www.civilwarbuttons.com phone: (540)338-7367

I don't think there's much doubt it being Mexican. It's to find a reference to match and date it. I did see there is a book for early Mexican military but assume not many would own it.

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Yeah that's the toughie there.

I did find something similar

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N&start=40&um=1

 

[kuger]

If it were Mexican,wouldnt it have the cactus and snake?

 

[shanegalang]

This button was recovered here in Illinois on a old home site,I have seen simular ones on t-net and are said to be Revolutionary war peroid buttons,I have recovered 1 other rev. button in the county that I live in, that I had ID'ed here on t-net as rev. naval button.The only back mark is super fine quality,its about the size of a half dime.
Rvrpilot

I posted today, 6 May 2012, with one exactly like this. I too am trying to get an I.D and date on it. Mine was found in South Louisiana.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

I agree that your button's brass 1-piece form and raised-letters backmark date it to the very-early-1800s ...and that it is a British-made button.

But I have to disagree with the above-posted answers ...even including my friend William Leigh's opinion. Here are my reasons:

1- It's not enough that the eagle "looks similar" to the eagle on a Mexican button. Note that the eagle on a well-documented Confederate Officer button (CS-4 in the Albert button-book) is almost exactly identical to the eagle on your unidentified button.

2- The Republic of Mexico eagle is always shown clasping a snake in its beak and standing on cactus. Your button has no snake, no cactus, and (VERY importantly) the eagle is standing on an Oak branch ...note the acorns and Oak leaves.

3- I closely examined the three buttons at the posted link which identifies them as being Mexican Army buttons. Two show the eagle with snake in beak, on cactus. One does not, so I thiink that one is mis-identified. Also, note that none of those three buttons has a "reeded" or "denticle" border -- which yours has.

Because there seems to be neither a Mexican nor American match for your British-made button's Eagle-Standing-On-Oak-Branch emblem, perhaps a match could be found by searching for it among British early-1800s emblems.

 

[BuckleBoy]

I am curious by what Breezie mentioned about Louisiana buttons. Was she talking about Pelican buttons? Or are there local Louisiana buttons which I am not aware of, that look closer to this one? I think it is an odd coincidence that she mentioned Louisiana and then we found one in Louisiana (the second example below). What state was the one in the original post dug in?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I have one in my files. It was dug and sold on eBay as 1820-1840.
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[shanegalang]

Did anybody ever get a better I D on this button? As you can see earlier in the thread, we found one in South Louisiana. I agrre with "thecannonballguy" post...no snake, no cactus. Maybe some sort of militia button? Lets reopen this case.........Thanks for any and all input, Shane

 

[fyrffytr1]

If anyone could ID this button it would be Don Troiani. Maybe someone could get in touch with him.