🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Old Button Found

[DiggingThePast777]

I found what I'm pretty sure is an old Button taking a walk in a field it was sitting on the top of the ground I took it home grinded a toothpick down and began cleaning the cruddy dirt off but if you do it for too long it will take the lettering off i don't have an Andre's pencils and I should probably wait till I get a set to further clean it shouldn't I or is there a better method does anybody recognize the brand and the lettering on this button is it old please help me out folks give me some info here😉

 

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[DownEast_Detecting]

if you had better pictures we could probably read the lettering ourselves. needs to be in focus, and dont use the flash. Try natural light during the day. like in a window sill. you might get lucky though, if someone has dug one similar and recognizes it.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Your find is what most button-collectors and relicdiggers call a brass 1-piece "flatbutton." The backmark being written in raised lettering, and saying "London" means your flatbutton was made sometime during 1790-1812, in Britain. Although it could have been made in the 1820 to early-1830s, the War -of-1812 stopped the imports, and patriotic Americans boycotted British-made goods for many years after the war ended. These brass "flatbuttons" were made in the multi-millions, for use on Civilian clothing. So they are not classified as a Military button, even though a few Militia units did use flatbuttons on their uniforms, when they couldn't afford Military-emblem buttons.

The manufacture of flatbuttons dwindled to a trickle in the mid-1830s, having fallen out of favor with the public due to the advent in INEXPENSIVE brass 2-piece buttons with very "ornate" emblems or designs on their front.