PRE CW button, need help with an ID

[Goes4ever]

I was going thru my trash in my pouch from today, and found this crusty little slug. Took it inside and cleaned it up. Looks like a beat up flat button. Never found a flat button with an eagle. Looks like the same eagle as on CW general service buttons. Dave Wise on facebook says it is definately PRE CW he says 1820-30 and another guy says it is 1812 war period.......so not sure which exactly because I searched online for two hours and cannot nail a positive ID, the back is toast, all I can make out is stars going around the shank area. Found a lot of similar buttons but NONE with eagle facing this direction, all I see is ones with eagle facing opposite way

 

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[fishstick]

Sweet find GFE!!! Looks pewter and def old. Wish I could help. Way to look threw the junk .. HH...

 

[Trezurehunter]

I don't know, but its a great looking old button. Have you tried Alberts Button Book ?

 

[OldJerseyGirl]

I still think we need a forum just for Buttons!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Goes4ever]

Sweet find GFE!!! Looks pewter and def old. Wish I could help. Way to look threw the junk .. HH...

it is brass not pewter

I don't know, but its a great looking old button. Have you tried Alberts Button Book ?

my buddy looked and said several are close but none exact with eagle facing this direction

 

[Goes4ever]

G4e....Looks to be a Militia button dating to the 1820's. If it's 20mm, then I believe it's Albert's GI 65-B pg.33/34. You can also scroll down on the following link to GI 65-B and take a look. Best of luck to you with future hunts!
State Militia - George Washington 1789 Inaugural Button

yes looks like that is it! thank you

 

[parsonwalker]

Just to add some interest to your button (Which is GREAT by the way) a farmer-detectorist friend in the Northern Neck of Virginia found one of these almost exactly like yours. His grandfather told him that the guy who lived on the place in the 1800s fought in the civil war and was in the artillery. Well, this solid Eagle (like yours) had an "A" sure enough on the shield. More hunting turned up a Confederate Artillery button. My theory is that the guy was in the US artillery before the war (Hence the button like yours) and when the yankees invaded the South, it would have been only natural to join the CSA artillery. Hence - ONE guy . . . served under the flag of two different nations. Plausible, I think . . .

 

[vpnavy]