Navy Button?

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Bama Dave

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Found this button at an old 1856 church known to have been used by US Cav during the CW. Does anyone know what timeframe its from, there is no back as its rusted out. Its cuff -size and looks similar to navy buttons- it has 13 stars, rope around the outside, an eagle on an anchor and 3 stacked cannon balls.




Bama Dave
 
Button ID help?????

I'm at a wall as to this button can anyone help w/ the time period of manufacture? Is it even a real navy button?

Thanks

BD
 
Bama Dave, since nobody else seems willing to hazard a guess publicly, I'll give it a shot.

That style of button is based on a real pre-civil-war US Navy button's emblem, which has been copied for civilian use ever since then. The Original navy button was made of heavy sheet-brass (not lightweight), did not have an iron back, and the emblem had sharp (not weak) detail. I have an old civilian sportcoat/blazer jacket in my attic which has several of what looks to be an exact duplicate of your button on its sleeve-cuffs. Since can't hold your button in my hand and use a magnifying glass on it, I'll have to guess your iron-back button with a weakly-detailed emblem is one of the civilian reproductions.

Even so, let me mention:
More than once, with my own eyes, I've seen diggers toss a good item because they didn't know for certain what it was. So, you definitely did the right thing by posting your find with a request for verification of its time-period. :)

Regards,
Pete [PCGeorge]
 
Bama Dave said:
Found this button at an old 1856 church known to have been used by US Cav during the CW. Does anyone know what timeframe its from, there is no back as its rusted out. Its cuff -size and looks similar to navy buttons- it has 13 stars, rope around the outside, an eagle on an anchor and 3 stacked cannon balls.




Bama Dave
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Guys, this is my first date on this page. I have a couple of identical buttons which I have always considered post civil war, in fact I believe mine to be post WW2. The backs of these buttons must have been very thin as both of my have rusted away even though they were from a site of late 1940's - 1960's.
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