More info on cadet button plz

[Mark1985]

 

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[Mark1985]

I found this in a plowed field next to about 9 gardeners 15 sharps bullets

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Your button is from the uniform of a Virginia Military Institute cadet. That specific type was manufactured before and (long) after the civil war. (VMI cadets still wear that emblem today.)

To date your button accurately, we'll need to see a well-focused closeup photo of its back, showing the exact wording and punctuation of the maker's-mark (backmark) on it.

The most common pre-civil-war backmark on VMI buttons is R&W Robinson. A "D. Evans & Co." backmark can be either pre-civil-war or postwar, depending on whether or not the "D. Evans & Co. is written inside a ribbon.

 

[Mark1985]

says d evens and I don't see a ribbon I will have to looks closer

 

[Mark1985]

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Thanks for the photos of the backmark.

The key to deciphering your button's backmark is that the lettering of the name "D. Evans & Co." faces outward, instead of facing inward toward the button's loop. That means it is the "name-on-a-ribbon" version of a D. Evans backmark, even though the curly ends of the ribbon are no longer visible on your excavated button's back.

Explanation: out of all the many variations of D. Evans backmarks, the only one which has the Evans name's lettering facing outward instead of inward toward the loop is the "name on a ribbon" version

Being on a Virginia Military Institute button, it means yours dates from the 1850s to 1861. Button backmarks, D Evans, Attleboro Massachusetts.

 

[tennessee digger]

Congrats on such a nice button and thanks to Pete, he has given you some very good info. Tennessee digger

 

[Mark1985]

Yes thank you very much I am super excited about the button most likely the best I ever found

 

[Gunrunner61]

A very cool Button! what part of the country you find it in?.................HH

 

[Mark1985]

Found it near the Spotsylvania court house area