Old button. Any help?

[elgrifon]

Hello Pappy and everyone,
I found this button in a field that I had found some old gun parts, bullet casings, copper bullets that had been in a tree that is now gone, along with other stuff.
I no nothing about this except that it is an old button, it has some writing on the back, but nothing that I can see on the front.





Thanks,
Happy Hunting,
Joe Kerchner

[elgrifon]

Anyone? is it worthless/trash? am I wasting my time keeping this kind of stuff?
H.H.
Joe K

You sure should keep that button. A lot of them are VERY collectible. I don't know much about them but I know if I do get one I sure would treat it well.
A couple years ago I found one and gave it to a friend of mine. He found out it was from a CW uniform.
Have you tried to google it to check it out yet?

[PAPPY]

JOE, It is well worth keeping. The double gilt means that it was heavily treated with gold gilt and possible from an officers uniform. I would say that it is from the C.W. era maybe earlier.
I can't find anything on Quality Button Co. as of yet but I will keep checking.

[PAPPY]

It very well may be a Waterbury BM button though I have never seen one like it that did not have Waterbury BM'ed on the back.

Waterbury Button - Pattern Catalog (Career Uniform - Police)

[elgrifon]

Hi Pappy and All,
Wow, I didn't think that it was anything to keep. I also found a few gun parts and bullets in the area. A friend found a 2.75"dia metal ball, I think it is probably cast iron. It is very magnetic, but reads 4 to 8 on my xterra-70. all iron reads -2 to -8. We thought it was probably a mill ball, could it be a cannon ball?
There were no C.W. battles faught here in IL. could it be from a post or fort or something like that?

Thanks and Happy Hunting,
Joe Kerchner
illinoismeteorites.com

[elgrifon]

I have looked at many hundreds of C.W. button photos and I have not seen any that resemble this. I saw a few that said superior quality, none that said 2nd quality. Has anyone else had any luck? any help would be appriciated. Once it warms up a little around here I plan on hunting the field for more. I found this with my cheapo MD, with my xterra-70 I only dug up ferrous objects. This is because I was looking for meteorites. I was getting many different targets that I did not dig, who knows what I left. I also found a few(<10) indian stone tools at this site.
Thanks in advance,
Happy Hutning,
Joe Kerchner

[elgrifon]

Has anyone been able to find out anything about it besides it is an old button? where would I be able find out? could I email a collector or can somebody here help me, I know that many people here are very good at identifying antique items, many enjoy doing it. Heck I enjoy trying to find out about a rare, hard to find item such as this.
Thanks,
Joe Kerchner

[XLT_user]

It is what is called a pennie button. Some men in the cofederate army wore there own close . It is a good find hang on to it.Keep it up.