Flat button identification

[Lost ball in tall weeds]

Hello all,
After my first week of poking around an old cabin site, have found 3 pennies, 1826 to 1831 and 22 buttons. No problem identifying the standard, double and treble gilt. But 2 buttons came up that I can't seem to get any info on. One has a stamped front with what looks like silver in the indentions, and the other has an eagle on the front holding a shield with no gifting at all. The eagle button is very small like a collar button. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

 

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[Older The Better]

the last one reminds me of a jacksonian button, which would be 1830's ish but im a novice button guy so ill defer to others if they disagree

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Your brass 1-piece flatbutton with silver plating (gilt means gold) and no backmark is a Civlian-usage one which button collectors call a "flower button" when it has a floral motif and a "geometric button" when it has that type of motif. Yours dates anywhere from the late-1700s into the 1830s. After that time, 1-piece buttons rapidly fell out of favor with the public due to the advent of inexpensive ornate 2-piece brass buttons.

Older_The_Better's guess is correct... your other button isn't actually a 1-piece, because it has a thin applied brass ring encircling its edge. Button collectors call that type a Jacksonian button because it was popular during the US Presidency of Andrew Jackson (two terms, 1829 through 1837). No Jacksonian buttons were Military-usage. They show flowers, or an animal, various railroad engines, farm-field scenes, or a "patriotic" motif such as the American Eagle. Here's a photo showing some of the many emblem variations seen on Jacksonian buttons.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Your brass 1-piece flat-button with silver plating (gilt means gold) and no backmark is a Civlian-usage one which button collectors call a "flower button" when it has a floral motif and a "geometric button" when it has that type of motif. Yours dates anywhere from the late-1700s into the 1830s. After that time, 1-piece buttons rapidly fell out of favor with the public due to the advent of inexpensive ornate 2-piece brass buttons.

Older_The_Better's guess is correct... your other button isn't actually a 1-piece, because it has a thin applied brass ring encircling its edge. Button collectors call that type a Jacksonian button because it was popular during the US Presidency of Andrew Jackson (two terms, 1829 through 1837). No Jacksonian buttons were Military-usage. They show flowers, or an animal, various railroad engines, farm-field scenes, or a "patriotic" motif such as the American Eagle. Here's a photo showing some of the many emblem variations seen on Jacksonian buttons.

Great information from TheCannonballGuy... what else can I say!

Nice finds,
Dave

 

[Hawks88]

Nice finds. Welcome to tnet from Niagara Falls.

 

[Lost ball in tall weeds]

You all amaze me with your knowledge of these things. Thank you for the info, will keep poking around. It's funny, starting to look like the original inhabitants didn't have an outhouse, they just went to the nearest slope of a drainage ditch, dropped their pants and, well, you can guess the rest. All the buttons so far are up and down both sides of the ditch. At least I'm finding something. Thanks again

 

[lairmo]

You all amaze me with your knowledge of these things. Thank you for the info, will keep poking around. It's funny, starting to look like the original inhabitants didn't have an outhouse, they just went to the nearest slope of a drainage ditch, dropped their pants and, well, you can guess the rest. All the buttons so far are up and down both sides of the ditch. At least I'm finding something. Thanks again

They may have threw there "trash", our "treasure" into the ditch. This was done a lot in the old days (and still done around here..lol).

 

[HuntinDog]

Wow 22 buttons...
Buttons are cool. Love finding them
and Those "pennies" are great finds.
Congrats

and ​Welcome to TreasureNet