P button

[FatCat]

My buddy just called me and said he found a gold plated P button today. I looked through the books I have and online and could find no P button. He found it at a large CW site here in alabama but it could also be civilian. The back reads (he thinks) ....evans....mass... He has limited research resources and I havnt seen the button myself yet. He said the P is fancy and he is not even sure its a P. Any ideas? thanks.

 

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[mojjax]

Police ?

 

[creskol]

Police ?

agree .. a police button

 

[Don in SJ]

Describe the P button to him from my photo, like the others have said, odds on it is P for Police.

Don

 

[FatCat]

He discribed it to look exactly like the large P button at the right of the above three pictures. Any ideas on age, history and value? Thank you for helping.

 

[Don in SJ]

He discribed it to look exactly like the large P button at the right of the above three pictures. Any ideas on age, history and value? Thank you for helping.

Doubt they have much value, rather common I believe, as far as age, hard to say, not sure what the backmark is on my but the Evans buttons can be anywhere from 1860s to 1945 or so, I believe most like mine are probably late 1800s, but not sure, my button is put away for now and cannot look at the backmark for dating.

Don

 

[vayank54]

Like everyone has already said it sound like a generic police button. you would have to go to the backmark for the age. D Evan's can date from 1848 into the mid 1900's. Some of the P buttons are civil war but most are later. If it is civil war it's worth $5 or so later buttons would be worth a lot less.