Warranted superior button?

[WaterBoy413]

Found this button on a hunt yesterday. hopefully someone can tell me a little about it. Its small and flat on the face. Backside says warranted superior.

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

WaterBoy413, welcome to T-Net's "What Is It?" forum, the best place on the internet to get CORRECT identification (and time-dating) for mystery-objects.

You found what button collectors call a brass 1-piece flatbutton, a type which was manufactured for civilian usage, not military. The great majority we find here in America date from the late-1700s to about 1840. Your button's backmark saying "Warranted Superior" means it is British-made. "Warranted" is Brit-speak for guaranteed, and "Superior" is a reference to the button's quality in comparison to other buttons. Brass 1-piece flatbuttons with a raised-lettering backmark date from about 1790 to 1840... and ones which have an indented-lettering backmark (like yours) began to show up a bit later, about 1810, and continued to be made into the 1840s. Brass 1-piece flatbuttons fell out of favor with the public by the end of the 1830s, due to the advent of machinery which could mass-produce inexpensive "ornate" (fancy-design) 2-piece brass buttons.

Pardon me for doing a cut-&-paste of the info from one of my previous replies about brass 1-piece flatbuttons. We get a LOT of ID/time-dating requests about them here in the What-Is-It forum, so its quicker to cut-&-paste the info than re-type it each time.

 

[WaterBoy413]

Thank you so much for the info! It was found near a seated liberty dime and half dime so i was wondering its age. Thanks for the help its much appreciated

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