Whats this button ?

[MetalMike]

It looks old and it's a button it's all I know is it anything special ? Like military or something ? Please help !

 

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[vpnavy]

Wow MetalMike - you really have to get your camera into focus for my old eyes!

 

[MetalMike]

Wow MetalMike - you really have to get your camera into focus for my old eyes!

There these should be a lot better ! Sorry for the last ones.

 

[duggap]

I think you have a fashion button, not military. But it is a guess.

 

[MetalMike]

I think you have a fashion button, not military. But it is a guess.

Ok cool ether way I think it's a nice find thank you it's only my second button so I a, really happy with it !

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

First... welcome to TreasureNet's What-Is-It? forum.

Your button's construction is 1-piece solid cast "white metal" alloy (called "white" to distinguish it from iron and yellow, orange, and pink/red metals). Your button's solid-cast body resembles some 200-year-old buttons, but the small raised circle next to the pillar-shank on its back indicates it was manufactred in the modern era. A similar button was discussed in this forum about a week ago. http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/353550-lil-help-button.html

That being said... it's always helpful for a digger to include information about where (town and state) the button (or other object) was dug, because that can be important for accurately time-dating it. For example, if a 1-piece solid-cast button was dug in Arizona, it almost certainly is not the 200-year-old kind.

 

[MetalMike]

First... welcome to TreasureNet's What-Is-It? forum.

Your button's construction is 1-piece solid cast "white metal" alloy (called "white" to distinguish it from iron and yellow, orange, and pink/red metals). Your button's solid-cast body resembles some 200-year-old buttons, but the small raised circle next to the pillar-shank on its back indicates it was manufactred in the modern era. A similar button was discussed in this forum about a week ago. http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/353550-lil-help-button.html

That being said... it's always helpful for a digger to include information about where (town and state) the button (or other object) was dug, because that can be important for accurately time-dating it. For example, if a 1-piece solid-cast button was dug in Arizona, it almost certainly is not the 200-year-old kind.

I dug this in Maine near a beach on a old dirt path about 2-3 inches down

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Thank you for the dig-site information. That means your button cannot be excluded from being the 200-year-old version by its dig-location. However, the raised circle on its back at the edge of the pillar-shank continues to make me think it is a modern-made one. (An identical raised circle is found on some modern-made cast lead hem-weights.) Perhaps some of this forum's experts on Colonial-era 1-piece cast buttons will have more to say about your button.

 

[vandaria]

No matter how old it is, it's a very pretty button MetalMike!

 

[CoilyGirl]

I'm kind of a button freak,this one is really nice.

 

[CRUSADER]

To me this screams modern but made to look older.

 

[Iron Patch]

These are almost always much lighter weight than an early cast button. The pics it's fairly obvious, but in person it would feel sort of like in between plastic and a heavy metal one, and if you had your eyes closed it would probably be hard to guess the material.