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[TNGUNS]

Dug a nice little New York Civil War era button yesterday and just wondered if some of the Penny Buttons from the same field would be datable or identifiable.

First one says "STANDARD" and "BEST STRONG" is in script.


This one appears to be silver washed or plated with no back mark.


This one appears to have stars bordering edge and is very thin with no apparent back mark

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

TNGuns wrote:
> just wondered if some of the Penny Buttons from the same field would be datable or identifiable.

"Plain" BRASS flat-buttons/penny-buttons with a brazed-on/soldered loop date from the latter 1700s to about the end of the 1840s (when they fell out of favor with the public due to the advent of inexpensively priced "ornate" 2-piece buttons). We can narrow down the time-period a bit by the type of backmark lettering (raised letters or indented letters). No-backmark ones were the earliest. Raised-letter backmarks seem to start in the 1790s. Indented-letter backmarks start in the very-early 1800s.

So, as noted, your plain-face no-backmark buttons are from anytime between the latter-1700s through the 1840s.

Your other button's indented-letters backmark saying "Standard" and "Best Strong" is British-made. Because you dug it in the US, it is one of the many thousands which were imported across the Atlantic to fill the American clothing-industry's demand for metal buttons until the American button-making industry became capable of mass-producing that kind of button (in the early-1830s).

 

[TNGUNS]

Again.....you are awesome on your ID's TheCannonballGuy. Thanks for all your help.