✅ SOLVED Flat Button Help

[USNFLYR]

Found this button along a shoreline where trappers and traders frequented. The backmark says "BEST", and it appears that arrows border the rim. Any ideas on the button company? Military?

Any help would be great!

 

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[grasshopper]

Probably just a civilian flat button that would have been silver/gold plated. The back most likely said something like "BEST QUALITY" and are from the early-mid 1800s.

Other quality designations I've found personally have any combination of: BEST QUALITY SUPER RICH WARRANTED PLATED TREBLE GILT EXTRA RICH ORANGE GOLD COLOUR (etc.) on them and don't always list a makers mark. The fronts are usually plain but some of them have various types of floral decorative designs.

 

[smokeythecat]

Grasshopper is correct. By the Civil War, this style had become "old" and fancier buttons came into vogue.

 

[USNFLYR]

Thanks Grasshopper! I thought the "Best" was a name. Like Best Co. etc. but it certainly makes sense!