✅ SOLVED Need a little help on this button

[flatbutton]

Dug this yesterday. It's cast brass or bronze. Rang up kinda low so I don't think it's copper. Found a close match online stating it was early 1700's but no other info.

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

The animal shown at 9-o'clock appears to be a rabbit... long upright ears and a cottontail, compared to the short ears and long tail on the dogs. Your button shows a game-animal (or perhaps fox) hunting scene, so it is a civilian-usage type called a Sportsman's or Sporting button. According to the two button-dating charts attached below, your button dates from the 2nd half of the 1700s into the very early 1800s.

Are you sure the metal is yellow (meaning brass or bronze)? Its construction looks more like the cast "white metal" buttons shown in the dating-charts.

Might have been helpful for you to tell us what the writing on its front says.

 

[flatbutton]

Thanks CBG, Not to sure about what type of metal it is I just assumed it was brass or bronze. It came out of the plug really green colored. Although hard to make out. it appears to say "The Joy Of Life"

 

[CRUSADER]

Thanks CBG, Not to sure about what type of metal it is I just assumed it was brass or bronze. It came out of the plug really green colored. Although hard to make out. it appears to say "The Joy Of Life"

Its cast pewter & you will need to treat that edge to stop it turning to dust when it drys out.

 

[flatbutton]

Its cast pewter & you will need to treat that edge to stop it turning to dust when it drys out.

Thank you so very much! I will definitely do that

 

[DetectorMoe]

Seems I dug the same button yesterday..