✅ SOLVED Older button or newer button?

[Tedyoh]

Hi,

I found this in north central PA last week, non-ferrous, no front design or back mark, .643" / 16.3 mm dia. - can someone let me know if this is an older button or more modern button please? Also can someone let me know when buttons stopped having the shanks soldered on the back as well.

Thanks....again!

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

It appears to be an early-1800s "flatbutton." The area on the front with copper showing through the silver shows it is plated, not solid silver. The earliest silver "plated" flatbuttons were Sheffield Plate, which meant a thin sheet of silver was fused (by heat) onto a somewhat thicker sheet of copper (NOT brass). Electrochemical silverplating of buttons didn't come along until the start of the mid-1800s (approximately late-1830s-to-1840). Sheffield plate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Soldering (or brazing) a loop onto the back of a 1-piece metal button continued into the 20th-Century. (For example, some World War One era French Army buttons had that construction.) I think it is still being done on some 1-piece brass fancy civilian-clothing buttons, but it is rare, because machine-stamped 2-piece buttons are much cheaper to manufacture.

 

[Tedyoh]

Thanks yet again Cannon........

 

[pong12211]

Where ya at in north central Pa..

 

[Tedyoh]

Where ya at in north central Pa..

We have a hunting camp on RT 555 on the Elk / Cameron County line.....close to Dents Run....we found the Civil War gold as well....NOT!!

 

[pong12211]

HAHAHAH... That's cool I live in elk county... I do alot of hunting out on goetzes summit in saint marys...

 

[Tedyoh]

Very good - we hunt on this side of the mountian, Gibson Twp / Driftwood.

 

[pong12211]

Well good luck to you.. Hope you have some more success on that side of the mountain.

 

[Tedyoh]

Thanks......same to you!