Based on the two-piece construction and the loop attachment, I'm thinking this is a 'civilian fashion' button dating from c1890 - 1920.
My feeling is that it's French and likely represents an image of a woman from a stage play or from a classical period of literary history.
"The classical period was a golden age for literature and the arts. The big writers from this period include all those Greek and Roman guys who wrote epics, like Homer of the Iliad and Odyssey fame, and the Roman poet Virgil who wrote the Aeneid. The Greek philosophers Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle called this period home, as did Greek dramatists like Euripides and Aristophanes. As for poets, Horace and Ovid were two of the most influential. So popular was the classical period that later writers, beginning with the Renaissance, often imitated the style of classical authors. This tradition of imitation is where we get the term neoclassical, or new classics."
Nice find on the spur too,
Dave
Based on the two-piece construction and the loop attachment, I'm thinking this is a 'civilian fashion' button dating from c1890 - 1920.
My feeling is that it's French and likely represents an image of a woman from a stage play or from a classical period of literary history.
"The classical period was a golden age for literature and the arts. The big writers from this period include all those Greek and Roman guys who wrote epics, like Homer of the Iliad and Odyssey fame, and the Roman poet Virgil who wrote the Aeneid. The Greek philosophers Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle called this period home, as did Greek dramatists like Euripides and Aristophanes. As for poets, Horace and Ovid were two of the most influential. So popular was the classical period that later writers, beginning with the Renaissance, often imitated the style of classical authors. This tradition of imitation is where we get the term neoclassical, or new classics."
Nice find on the spur too,
Dave
Umm... no, not a "western" spur. Specifically, it is a US Cavalry Model-1859 Enlisted-man's spur. Its iron rowel is missing, as usual.
By the way... the fact that the broken-off cavalry sword blade's end you found seems to have still been in an equal length of its scabbard suggests the whole thing is "there"... so please go back to that spot in the creek and dig the rest of the sword and scabbard out. Or, if the creek water is too cold for you, call me (I'm in Richmond too), so I can go dig it.
