U.S. Navy Button?

[Tinman]

I found this U.S. Navy Button today during a short hunt in a olderpark. Let me know if you know any details of the button including approximate age.
Thanks

 

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[UNCC-49ER]

Nice find there Tinman

 

[romeo-1]

It may be a more modern blazer button...popular style.

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Romeo, do you know what your talking about?

I have dug a similar button and was wondering what it is. Some more feedback on this button would be great folks.

Thank you,
Keep @ it and HH!!

 

[wildrider]

IMHO, Romeo is probably right.

I have dug several like them here in KY. The eagle/anchor has always been a popular knockoff of some older navy buttons. Most govenmental buttons still had actual shanks on the back, not just a hole to slide thread through.

 

[romeo-1]

Well, I am not an expert on buttons but I have also found several of these blazer buttons. They are probably one of the most copied military buttons for civilian use still in use today.

 

[Montana Jim]

I would like to comment - but only after seeing clearer pictures, especially of the back.

 

[Don in SJ]

I would like to comment - but only after seeing clearer pictures, especially of the back.

Jim is 100% correct, good photo of front and back on buttons is almost a "haveto" for proper ID. But on this button looking at the curvature on the back, I am also going to say most likely a modern blazer button.

Don

 

[Tinman]

Here are few more views and a link to a "Claimed" Navy reproduction? Maybe it is a BS claim..but this is what made me think it was at least some kind of Navy button. Why would anyone make a repro of a blazer button?

http://www.tias.com/11052/PictPage/1922289467.html

I'm starting to lean to the Blazer idea...but keep in mind this park was in place in 1871. I also posted down in the relic hunting/button section with mixed reviews

There is also another post with the same button from allenb
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,116333.0.html

 

[romeo-1]

Why would anyone make a repro of a blazer button?

The repro would not be for the blazer button but for the actual Navy button. There was actually a Navy button in this pattern but the pattern was adopted for civilian blazer use...

Don't get me wrong...I'm NOT any kind of expert...but I have found several of these buttons and those all turned out to be Navy buttons. If your is an actual Navy button then that is great!

 

[Montana Jim]

Why would anyone make a repro of a blazer button?

The repro would not be for the blazer button but for the actual Navy button. There was actually a Navy button in this pattern but the pattern was adopted for civilian blazer use...

Don't get me wrong...I'm NOT any kind of expert...but I have found several of these buttons and those all turned out to be Navy buttons. If your is an actual Navy button then that is great!

I think they are sayin it might be a reproduction due to the type of shank on the back... not a looped shank.

Thanks or the additional pictures... lemme see what I can come up with... it's extreamly common to repro the nay buttons - but your button face tools legit... while the back and shank are in question...

Lets give it some time and see if anyone else chimes in... I'm gonna research it too...

 

[Montana Jim]

My opinion...

The eagles wings and the anchor do not resemble any navy buttons I can find.

The complete lack of a backmark and the self shank is indicative of the button either being made overseas or here in the USA as a blazer button.

I encourage you to research more... but that's my opinion. Post 1930's - possibly much newer...

 

[Tinman]

How about Spanish-American War period? What do Navy buttons look like then? The size is right for the small version described 9/16ths at the bottom of this page.

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq59-9a.htm

 

[Montana Jim]

How about Spanish-American War period? What do Navy buttons look like then? The size is right for the small version described 9/16ths at the bottom of this page.

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq59-9a.htm

See this link... and click on each picture to see the button up close. Look at the differences in the wing's arch and the rounded anchor... although close, there are differences. By the way... this is a good example fo MANY button varieties over several years... please feel free to continue searching and researching!

http://www.thetreasuredepot.com/cayenna/index.html (click on the left under United States on the "navy" link)

And - Google Navy buttons and start looking for any with a shank like yours... I was just unable to find any. My partner and I have dug over 150 eagle army buttons and never have seen this shank from a button of that era through the 1910s...