Favorite button to date. pocket knife, powder compact, wheaty, cigar token

[RatherBeDigging]

Was having a rough hunt. My headphone jack called it quits it was cold and windy and all I had to show for my efforts was a harmonica reed after 2 hours. Then about 2 hours before I had to leave I started finding stuff. A pocket knife, 1945 wheaty, a Sam N. Seip cigar token circa 1892-1916, a Dorothy Gray powder compact from the 1940s and that fancy flat button. Love the design on it. Intact shank too. Trying to get the benchmark figured out. It's in the what is it section because I can't read all of it.

The little white button was a bonus find.

 

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[Colonial Digger]

Great finds ,love them all, the button is very nice. the reed pieces i save all of them and put in a Mason jar for show.

 

[RatherBeDigging]

Button is Connecticut made A. GOODYEAR & SON. Button. Amasa Goodyear's son Charles patented his formula for vulcanized rubber in 1844.

 

[fyrffytr1]

That backmark might read A Goodyear & sons Hardwhite and it may be a pewter button made between c. 1826-c. 1835. Please post a picture of the back.

 

[RatherBeDigging]

Here is the back . Definitely marked
A. Goodyear & son Hardwhite

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Nice finds !

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!