These buttons are driving me crazy!! Now with a pic of the back!!

[BioProfessor]

I thought it was a good idea to go through the buttons from last year. Maybe not. I keep finding ones I can't figure out. Nothing on the net that I can find. No examples on button sites.

This button is surely brass but it came out of the ground this way. No real patina. So I'll call it brass that stays shiny.

It is a one piece button and is 23mm in diameter. The back is filled with either the worst black crud you can imagine or some sort of black pitch. I can't get anything to make a dent in it. So no information available to me off the back.

It seems to be a script 9. It doesn't look right as a 6.

It was found around Charleston, SC so it could be from pretty much any time from 1750 onwards and could be US, British, French, etc.

I cannot find any information about a "9th Regiment" or any one piece button with this number on it. Or maybe it something else. I've been looking at buttons too long.

Any help, direction, rope to hang myself, etc. would be appreciated.

Daryl

 

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[Don in SJ]

Re: These buttons are driving me crazy!!

Troiani's book does show 9th Regiment of Foot buttons, many variants, some close to yours so perhaps a post Rev War version for the regiment, look up War of 1812 activity perhaps, the Rev War region for the 9th was Quebec and New England area, no mention of being down south in that war.

Don

 

[BioProfessor]

Re: These buttons are driving me crazy!!

Thanks Don! I wish I had the books. May have to pick them up.

I've looked at buttons from around that time and no examples. I've tried to find 9th regiment buttons and all I find are "Crown over 9" buttons.

No domed 1 piece with just nine on them.

I'm still looking but hoping somebody will beat me to it.

Daryl

 

[Iron Patch]

Re: These buttons are driving me crazy!!

The style of the number says more Spain to me, or something European and different than we usually see.

 

[Don in SJ]

Re: These buttons are driving me crazy!!

The style of the number says more Spain to me, or something European and different than we usually see.

The photos in Troiani's book are similar to this button, so I would not rule out British, no crown on the buttons at all, just a similar 9.

 

[BioProfessor]

Re: These buttons are driving me crazy!!

I am not ruling out Britain but all the numbered regiments I have seen have the crown. Just can't get a grip on this design.

Daryl

 

[Iron Patch]

Re: These buttons are driving me crazy!!

The style of the number says more Spain to me, or something European and different than we usually see.

The photos in Troiani's book are similar to this button, so I would not rule out British, no crown on the buttons at all, just a similar 9.

Looks too domed to me to be that early but teh number is very close in style.

 

[Don in SJ]

Re: These buttons are driving me crazy!!

The style of the number says more Spain to me, or something European and different than we usually see.

The photos in Troiani's book are similar to this button, so I would not rule out British, no crown on the buttons at all, just a similar 9.

Looks too domed to me to be that early but teh number is very close in style.

Yes, agreed, that is why I said check War of 1812 activity, but some of the 9th Regiment were slightly domed, but the one shown is IX not a 9. But the style matches.