Todays Button Find. Help I.D. & Date ?

[jeff of pa]

Todays Button Find. Help I.D. & Date ?

I found this at the Church Grove today.

Can anyone Give Me Details on it ?

All I can read is GILT.

it's just Slightly Smaller then a dime.

 

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[dg39]

Re: Todays Button Find. Help I.D. & Date ?

I think you have just an early fancy dress button. I have dug up a jar full of different types, all with flowers from around mainly old home sites and some times CW sites..Late 1800's usually.

 

[Michelle]

Re: Todays Button Find. Help I.D. & Date ?

Pretty FLOWER button.......When the U.S. military split and the soldiers went their way, so did those U.S. military attires! Times were hard in those days, and to many, it didn't matter what they wore. When it was time for those southern boys to go into confederate camps, many of them wore those U.S. military attires, it was all they had. This is why we find U.S. belt plates, breast plates, and eagle buttons of all sorts in CS camps. Earlier buttons are found in these CS camps as well, these guys wore anything they could get their hands on. Many think the "Flower Button" was for women, well that's wrong. Men on both sides of the mason wore clothing with flower buttons etc., however, during the war it was more prominent on the confederacy side. Some folks feel just because a soldier was a confederate he had a CS uniform. If the truth be known, only about 50% of the confederate army was clothed in CS attire, and that may be stretching it.
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[trk5capt]

Re: Todays Button Find. Help I.D. & Date ?

JEFF, CW Era Flower Button, Congrats. trk5capt...

 

[dg39]

Re: Todays Button Find. Help I.D. & Date ?

I think you have just an early fancy dress button. I have dug up a jar full of different types, all with flowers from around mainly old home sites and some times CW sites..Late 1800's usually.

Did I say anything about ladies buttons, read the post again..all-inclusive, sorry did not put that in. You are correct Michelle, in saying they wore what they could get..

 

[Michelle]

Re: Todays Button Find. Help I.D. & Date ?

I think you have just an early fancy dress button. I have dug up a jar full of different types, all with flowers from around mainly old home sites and some times CW sites..Late 1800's usually.

Did I say anything about ladies buttons, read the post again..all-inclusive, sorry did not put that in. You are correct Michelle, in saying they wore what they could get..

No, we are all right cause if they wore what they could find more then likely the women wore them too...really.....