✅ SOLVED Union Navy Buttons?

[Bharpring]

I found the button on the right (smaller) on an old home site in Savannah where I have found both modern and Civil War era items. I found the button on the left (larger) at an old site in Chicago. They both appear to be from the same type of coat. Are this Union Navy buttons or something else more modern?

 

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[nhbenz]

Unfortunately they are fashion buttons, for the reasons outlined by TheCannonballGuy here: http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/423755-civil-war-navy-button.html

 

[Icewing]

Yep it's a post civil war civilian blazer button, you can tell because of the steel back.
I have found one a while back too, and was a bit let down to find out it was a reproduction.
Then I got over it and put it in my display case anyway because it's still cool looking, to me.

 

[Bharpring]

Yeah. I figured they were modern blazer buttons.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Found this one in White Plains, New York, at a park opened to commemorate the Battle of White Plains, in 1776.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Terry, thought you might want to know... according to the McGuinn-&-Bazelon button-backmarks book's photos of Scovill backmarks, yours saying "Scovill Mf'g Co. / Waterbury" with no stars or other designs nor a circle of dots, etc dates your actual military US Navy button to being made from 1870 to 1890.

 

[fyrffytr1]

I think just about everyone who detects has found, and been fooled by these buttons. I pulled one from the same site that gave up Union and Confederate buttons and was stoked when I found it. i posted it here and soon had the air taken out of my sail. But, the initial rush can't be taken away.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Terry, thought you might want to know... according to the McGuinn-&-Bazelon button-backmarks book's photos of Scovill backmarks, yours saying "Scovill Mf'g Co. / Waterbury" with no stars or other designs nor a circle of dots, etc dates it to being made from 1870 to 1890.

Thanks! That is great info!!