✅ SOLVED Navy Button?

[mxh5891]

Found this button on a site with a old home built in 1730. The house is less then a mile from the ocean. Rumor has it that a British warship fired on the house during the war of 1812. Just wondering if anyone can identify the button and what Era it is from.

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

It is a US Coast Guard button, from sometime between 1915 and 1941, because the eagle is facing toward the eagle's left. (After 1941 the eagle faces frontward.) To time-date it any more narrowly than that, we need to see a well-focused closeup photo of its back. Does it have a backmark, and if so, please tell us what it says.

 

[mxh5891]

Not sure if this is good enough. I cleaned it with warm water after I dug it and that's it. I don't know how to properly clean it so I left it just like this.

 

[A2coins]

I love that story 1730 house the ocean house being fired on, what a awesome place to hunt.Good job!!!!!!

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

I can see just enough letters to tell that your US Coast Guard button's backmark is "Wanamaker & Brown" and probably also says "Phila." for Philadelphia PA. That company was in business from the 1860s through 1995, so unfortunately the backmark doesn't narrow down your button's time-period.

I forgot to mention in my previous reply that your button is shown as button FD-14 on page 277 in the book "Record Of American Uniform And Historical Buttons, Bicentennial Edition" by Alphaeus H. Albert.

 

[mxh5891]

I can see just enough letters to tell that your US Coast Gurad button's backmark is "Wanamaker & Brown" and probably also sdays "Phila." for Philadelphia PA. That company was in business from the 1860s through 1885, so unfortunatley the backmark doesn't narrow down your button's time-period.

I forgot to mention in my previous reply that your button is shown as button FD-14 on page 277 in the book "Record Of American Uniform And Historical Buttons Bicentennial Edition" by Alphaeus H. Albert.

Thank you so much for your help. This is why I love this forum!

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

You've got this discussion-thread marked "Solved" but I hope you take one more look at it. I made a serious typo-error in my previous reply. I typed 1885 when I meant to type 1995. I fixed the error. Hopefully my reply makes more sense now.

A big thank-you to my friend Nhbenz for sending me a heads-up about the typo.

 

[mxh5891]

You've got this discussion-thread marked "Solved" but I hope you take one more look at it. I made a serious typo-error in my previous reply. I typed 1885 when I meant to type 1995. I fixed the error. Hopefully my reply makes more sense now.

A big thank-you to my friend Nhbenz for sending me a heads-up about the typo.

Yeah the first dates you put didn't make sense, but I am just happy to know the button is a Coast Guard button from between 1915-1941.