Very nice button.

[Thekingd93]

I found a button that's slightly larger than a quarter and has great detail. I wonder how old it is or what it originally was for.

 

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[KSDirtfisher77]

I found a button that's slightly larger than a quarter and has great detail. I wonder how old it is or what it originally was for.

Congrats!!! That is a sharp button, that is awesome! Does it have any back Mark's on the back of the button? Thanks for sharing.

 

[NorILdigcollector]

That's a cool button. A picture of the back would be helpful to get a date on it.

 

[Thekingd93]

That's a cool button. A picture of the back would be helpful to get a date on it.

The back is pretty crusty but I'm going to clean the back

 

[Kona Koma]

I found a button that's slightly larger than a quarter and has great detail. I wonder how old it is or what it originally was for.

Nice button.

 

[Red-Coat]

Nice. It looks to be a "junk" boat, as used in China, Japan and other parts of the Orient. I would be sure it's a pictorial fashion button. Oriental imagery of a "Chinoiserie" nature was popular in the West for a long time and in the late 19th Century there was a surge of interest in all things Japanese, driven in part by performances of the hugely popular opera "Mikado" beginning in 1885.

I would think the button imagery is probably Japanese rather than Chinese and relates to that period in the last part of the 1800s when Japanese-themed buttons, brooches and other items were widely produced in the West.

 

[Silvermonkey]

That's quite a nice button!

 

[Digger RJ]

I found a button that's slightly larger than a quarter and has great detail. I wonder how old it is or what it originally was for.

Very Cool!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Thekingd93]

Nice. It looks to be a "junk" boat, as used in China, Japan and other parts of the Orient. I would be sure it's a pictorial fashion button. Oriental imagery of a "Chinoiserie" nature was popular in the West for a long time and in the late 19th Century there was a surge of interest in all things Japanese, driven in part by performances of the hugely popular opera "Mikado" beginning in 1885.

I would think the button imagery is probably Japanese rather than Chinese and relates to that period in the last part of the 1800s when Japanese-themed buttons, brooches and other items were widely produced in the West.

So it's likely from the late 1800's?

 

[Red-Coat]

So it's likely from the late 1800's?

That would be my belief... very late 1800s. A view of the back might help, but fashion buttons like this frequently have no backmark that helps in dating.

 

[Thekingd93]

That would be my belief... very late 1800s. A view of the back might help, but fashion buttons like this frequently have no backmark that helps in dating.

I have a rotary tumbler that I clean my finds with. I'll see what comes out on thr back of anything.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Great looking button.