First Flat Button...? Any info on age, etc., appreciated

[rastinirv]

This is the first time I've found a button like this. It's the size of a quarter. Any sense of its age?

Thank you!

 

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[CRUSADER]

Tombac button circa 1800 give or take 20 years each side.

 

[rastinirv]

Tombac button circa 1800 give or take 20 years each side.

I like your opinion regarding its age! But it has such a green patina; is that normal for tombac buttons? I thought they had a lot of zinc in them

 

[CRUSADER]

I like your opinion regarding its age! But it has such a green patina; is that normal for tombac buttons? I thought they had a lot of zinc in them

its not normal, but the mix of metals vary greatly, I've had similar colours to this one.

 

[HutSiteDigger]

I like your opinion regarding its age! But it has such a green patina; is that normal for tombac buttons? I thought they had a lot of zinc in them

Might have been sitting in some fertilizer @ some point in time. Even if it was sitting in a field that had fertilizer in it from the 19th century,etc it can make buttons,coins or what have you come out looking like this. The worse are the coins that been sitting in fertilizer at some point in their life. pretty much ruins em! Kewl flat though..

 

[Ninjafossils]

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

 

[HutSiteDigger]

what does that bring up ninja?

 

[rastinirv]

what does that bring up ninja?

Well I clicked on it and it brings up a pretty useful guide to identifying buttons. Thanks Ninjafossils