St Augustine wet sand find button?

[igottadig]

Foumd this working the wet sand. I cleaned it up some and it shined up just lime silver but it stick to a magnet. No markings other than a possible "j" on the from that could just be a scratch. Tje shank appears to be of an oldwr style button. Any ideas?

 

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[smokeythecat]

My best GUESS is it is fairly new. No corrosion, and the style is still made.

 

[Hawks88]

I agree with Smokey.

 

[igottadig]

I used sandpaper to clean the salt corrosion from the top the bottom i left the salt corrosion on. Thanks for the opinions!

 

[A2coins]

cool find newer ones dont fall off often like the old ones did lol

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

I'll be honest with you... my butt clenched when I read that you took sand paper to the corrosion.
Stylistically it looks to be 18thc, but it also looks to be made of pot-metal as opposed to tombac.

Have to agree with Smokey that it's more likely to be mid-20thc modern.

Dave

 

[DCMatt]

I'll be honest with you... my butt clenched...

Dave

Thank you for playing the "Too Much Information" game...