Old find needs identification

[Backwoodsbob]

Wondering if it's a button or?

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Do you know any tips. My s5 has a problem focusing in close

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Try closing all of your apps first, if that wont do it try using the magnifier ap in your tool box menu.

 

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[Backwoodsbob]

Thanks for all the help.

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Backwoodsbob, in my 40+ years as a civil war relic digger and dealer, mostly in the Richmond-to-Fredericksburg (VA) area, I've seen several dug examples of your button, definitely from the civil war era, gold-plated, with an iron back. The pattern of the design is distinctive enough that I recognize it. It is indeed a Civilian-usage button, but for whatever my humble opinion is worth, it absolutely is not a 20th-Century button.

Civil war relic diggers and collectors call buttons with similar patterns a "flower button" because so many do have a floral design, but (like yours) some are more "geometric" in their design than floral.

 

[Backwoodsbob]

Thank for the information. Cannonball.. my father is from the Fredericksburg area. Just off interstate 95 there was an old field hospital. It's owned now by another relative . The last name Duncan. You should try and ask to search it. There's been a lot of artifacts found there.

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