Mystery Pewter Military(?) Button, Big Tombac and a Few Others

[Lost Signal]

Went out with mbcuce and discovered that our go-to field had just been mowed. Found a nice assortment of buttons, including a rough pewter button that I'm very curious about. It's about 1" diameter. Any ideas? Thanks for looking.

 

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[Professor of Engineering]

Nice finds, congrats!

 

[mbcuce]

Weird thing is it matches one I found a while back at the same spot but not in as good of shape as this one.

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[CRUSADER]

Interesting but looks a little amateur to be a Military issue.

 

[broken_detector]

Well it just doesn't look like an american made military butting, maybe British? America has always kinda had a reputation even early on of some way showing that they were an American officer, imagine if we all walked around with redcoats nobody would kno who's who...

 

[broken_detector]

If it was going to be any war I could possibly see revolutionary war due to some of their buttons being very simple designed

 

[awdw]

Nice. Now it needs plowing.

 

[Lost Signal]

If it was going to be any war I could possibly see revolutionary war due to some of their buttons being very simple designed

Yeah, there are a good many Revolutionary War buttons that are just combinations of letters and numbers, and some are pretty primitive. There is a tnet thread that includes some "field cast" buttons. Mine could be that but the combination of letters don't work for anything military that I can think of.

 

[Lost Signal]

I did a little more cleaning and have a new theory about this button. After looking at some "field cast" or "field manufactured" buttons, I think that someone took an existing mold or made a mold for a decorative button and incised "USA" to make a patriotic design. Yes, the letters are all turned in different ways, but I can see an "amateur" doing it this way.
Here's a better image:

 

[lowcountry]

Very cool find!!😊 Probably just as mysterious as the PN buttons we find down here😊

 

[Patriot Relics]

Interesting pewter, can you post a picture of the back. Should provide more clues on origin

 

[Lost Signal]

Interesting pewter, can you post a picture of the back. Should provide more clues on origin

I was hoping you might have some insight on this, since you've dug so much around the Lowcountry.

The one that mbcuce found (see a few posts back in this thread) is from the same mold. I overlayed them in photoshop and they match.

Here's the back...

 

[A2coins]

Nice relics sometimes its just more interesting to not know what it is makes you wonder pretty cool though