Modified Dandy Button?

[Vermonter]

I found this button at a site where I pulled a 1755 1/2 Reale and some smaller old flat buttons. It's typical Dandy button size, very thin, with an early-looking hand-punched floral design. No shank though, completely broken off, just a solder bump remaining. It's the two holes that are throwing me off. Obviously they were punched sometime after the button was made, front to back. I've just never found a modified Dandy. Is that what this is? Meant to be sewn-on or clipped-on after the shank broke?

 

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[DCMatt]

You are correct. Repaired button... Pretty cool!

 

[digging440yrs]

Sure looks it , who knows it may of been an eyeball find 50 or 100 years after it was lost, and re used---no wal marts back then, you used what you had

 

[Vermonter]

Thanks, I figured that's what it was. I was thinking maybe two holes to pin it rather than to sew it on. Hard to say.

It's an early site for sure, right on my own property to boot! Very nondescript, just some stones that have fallen-in (or pushed-in) to a shallow ravine/stream at the edge of a field, no cellar hole, a small mound at best with saplings and brush all around. Tough swinging. I did pull a couple other small flat copper buttons, and the 1/2 Reale. Sorry, it's a 1775 1/2 Reale not 1755. I went over there last night and got this big tombac, 33mm. I had never dug one this large. Anyway, the repaired Dandy, the Reale, and the Tombac ... all consistent timeline I think.

 

[digging440yrs]

Sounds like a log cabin site-no cellar. Since its your property, you could clear the area of junk trees and hit hard--I would--good luck

 

[edlynne]

I once posted a button with a hole in it and someone commented that it could have been used as a whizzer, I believe. A string would pass through the two holes and the kids would whiz it around. My button only had one hole and was also found in Vermont. Just a guess.