✅ SOLVED Flat buttons and Buckle help

[Beeps in my sleep]

I was digging at a customers house today who owns a house on the outskirts of Chambersburg that was built in the 1700's. I found these 2 flat buttons and a small buckle. Could someone give me an idea of the time frame for the buttons and buckle and what that buckle was for? Here at the best photo's I could get since my desk lamp is broken.

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

First button is a brass 1-piece civilian-usage "flatbutton," with a raised backmark, which means it dates from sometime between the 1790s and 1830s.

Second button is another civilian-usage one, a White-Tombac 1-piece button, with a "spun" back. That type dates from the mid-1700s into the very-early 1800s. (White Tombac is a brass alloy which contains about 1% or 2% of the metal Arsenic, which changes the alloy's color to grey-silverish.)

More often than not, when an antique brass buckle has an iron tongue it is a horseharness buckle. Also, the "upturned" shape matches a type of horseharness buckle.

 

[Old Dude]

Hiya Beeps. Long time no see. I see you're still having good hunts down there. My very first flat button had that same back mark as your first one I believe.