✅ SOLVED Need some help with a button ID please

[Mud Hut]

Who is this on this button and how old do you reckon it is? Sorta looks like Abe Lincoln and sorta has the appearance of some of the Patriotic and Commemorative buttons shown in Albert's book.

 

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[DCMatt]

Tough one... "Feels like" early 19th C. But with no back mark there's not much to go on. It could be anybody from Prince Albert to George Carlin.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Your button's body is constructed like an 1820s-thru-early-1830s "Jacksonian" button... a 1-piece flat brass disc with an applied ring-like rim, and soldered/brazed-on wire loop shank. Yes, I know, it's true that on typical Jacksonian button's the back does not show the emblem seen on the button's front. Nonetheless, this button's body-construction is the same as a Jacksonian. Also, note that in the Jacksonian Buttons group-photo below, the 6th button in the 2nd row shows that some Jacksonians have a "decorated" (not plain) applied rim, like yours. So, in summary, I believe the emblem on your button represents a famous man from prior to about 1835.

Sidenote:
The majority of Jacksonian buttons were made in Britain... which somewhat implies the "famous man" is a European of some kind (British, or historical Roman, or Greek), not an American.

 

[erfranks]

Your button's body is constructed like an 1820s-thru-early-1830s "Jacksonian" button... a 1-piece flat brass disc with an applied ring-like rim, and soldered/brazed-on wire loop shank. Yes, I know, it's true that on typical Jacksonian button's the back does not show the emblem seen on the button's front. Nonetheless, this button's body-construction is the same as a Jacksonian. So I believe the emblem on it represents a famous man from prior to about 1835.

I would agree, a Jacksonian Button, I found a nice one with eagle very similar to one thecannonballguy posted. They are very cool buttons, nice find

 

[DCMatt]

Your button's body is constructed like an 1820s-thru-early-1830s "Jacksonian" button... a 1-piece flat brass disc with an applied ring-like rim, and soldered/brazed-on wire loop shank. Yes, I know, it's true that on typical Jacksonian button's the back does not show the emblem seen on the button's front. Nonetheless, this button's body-construction is the same as a Jacksonian. Also, note that in the Jacksonian Buttons group-photo below, the 6th button in the 2nd row shows that some Jacksonians have a "decorated" (not plain) applied rim, like yours. So, in summary, I believe the emblem on your button represents a famous man from prior to about 1835.

Sidenote:
The majority of Jacksonian buttons were made in Britain... which somewhat implies the "famous man" is a European of some kind (British, or historical Roman, or Greek), not an American.

Are the profiles, front and back, the same? They don't look the same to me. So maybe president and vice-presidential candidates?

I also thought philosopher or Caesar or historical person. That would be anybody's guess... My first thought, really, was Prince Albert - mostly based on the style (date) of the button. But I couldn't make his profile match the button...

 

[DCMatt]

Here's a similar style but yet another profile:



Apparently, Jefferson.

 

[DCMatt]

Good information here:

https://wrba.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/96-Barrans-Tom-JACKSONIANS-Aug-2013-WRBA.pdf