Navy Plate and Scovill Waterbury Button?

[_muppet_]

Yesterday I hunted a new spot with a friend of mine and came up with some unique finds. These finds were in Northwestern Pennsylvania. The circular piece with the anchor on it has me the most curious. I'm guessing this is something Navy related? The gold guild button says scovill waterbury on the back and is blank on the front. I'm guessing this is military also? Anybody know what time frame this would have been or who would have worn it? I found a war of 1812 artillery button pictured with the other finds in the same patch of grass, I'm wondering if all these are tied together?

 

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[ANTIQUARIAN]

Welcome to Tnet from Toronto muppet!
If you could give the face of your anchor button a light clean and post a picture of the back that would be helpful.

Congrats on the 1852 LC,
Dave

 

[_muppet_]

Thanks, the large cent was actually my friend's, so was the Roosevelt and the little silver pin in the bottom left. This spot had awesome variety. I will get the anchor piece cleaned up and get some more pictures up. I'm in WV on work right now, and the finds are at home. I thought maybe someone would recognize the pattern and know what time frame it was from. The war of 1812 button was a surprise, and it was only maybe 25 yards from the anchor piece. I was hoping it might also be war of 1812 related, but have no idea since there seem to be coins in this location steadily from 1830's to present.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Your Scovill-backmarked plain-front button was not sold for Military use, but some may have gotten used on local (city or state, not US Army) Militia uniforms. By the way, if it says Scovills Waterbury (with an S on the end of Scovill), it dates strictly from 1840 to 1850.

 

[_muppet_]

Intersting, thanks for the info. I'll have to take a close look at it when I get home and see if it says Scovill or Scovills. It was literally within 10 ft of the artillery button, but this site has been used a long time as a community hall and there is a cemetery 50 yards behind this yard. I'm guessing a lot of this stuff has been dropped by people attending funerals there. I'm still very curious about the anchor piece, I see a very similar anchor on older Navy buttons.

 

[_muppet_]

Just got home, the blank button does in fact say scovills with an s on the back. I cleaned up the anchor piece with a toothbrush a bit and found out it's silver plated. The back of it is pretty rough, can't tell much from the back.

There's the 1812 button from the same site after drying and brushing a bit.