✅ SOLVED Eagle Button With Wreath

[Spats]

Please help with this two piece button that I found at an antebellum plantation house site this morning. It measures 22.4 or 22.5 mm and has an eagle with a lined shield. It appears to have a wreath around the outside around the eagle. The back mark (can't read in second picture) is "SCOVILL EXTRA" with another word that I can't read but which contains an "R". Can anyone help with this one? Thanks.

 

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[Iron Patch]

I won't say how I cleaned it, but I have since poured all my lemon juice down the kitchen sink.

I would not be so quick to beat yourself up because if it was covered in corrosion, which I'm guessing it was, you did, and got the best result you could. That's exactly how it works for most of my buttons here, it's just luck of the draw what you will have below. I've have some that were beautiful when cleaned, and others rotted and next to nothing left. Just how it is.

 

[Iron Patch]

I love this button and have learned a valuable lesson in button cleaning. You guys are good!!!

Again, I disagree. Thinking in reverse I do not see a different result for that button because I highly doubt you had a decent patina to work with.

 

[Spats]

Thanks Iron Patch. The front was almost completely covered in green guck. I could only see a hint of the eagle's head and nothing else. I did use the toothpick method on back and could make out most of the b/m before resorting to death by citrus. I looked up the b/m in "America Military Button Makers and Their Backmarks and Dates" by McGuin and Bazelon and they list this particular button as being manufactured between 1840 and 1850, so that's pretty neat.

 

[Iron Patch]

Thanks Iron Patch. The front was almost completely covered in green guck. I could only see a hint of the eagle's head and nothing else. I did use the toothpick method on back and could make out most of the b/m before resorting to death by citrus. I looked up the b/m in "America Military Button Makers and Their Backmarks and Dates" by McGuin and Bazelon and they list this particular button as being manufactured between 1840 and 1850, so that's pretty neat.

Even if it was a unique CW button and worth a pile of cash in any condition, there would have been no alternative to clean it any better. You just removed the green and that's what was left... luck of the draw.