Found this button at the site where I had found the dragonfly brooch and silver locket cover.Heres what Thatcannonballguy on the relic forum wrote:
Keith, that particular backmark means it was produced between 1790 and 1840 - and most probaly toward the earlier side of that range. Also, that particular STYLE of crown means it was made in Britain. (Until a significant degree of industrial manufacturing "got going" in the early United States, it was still necessary to import a lot of manufactured goods from England.)
On such buttons, the word "plated" always refers to Silver ...and "gilt" always refers to Gold. So your button was silver-plated.
My wife was at the store and somehow started talking about metal detecting with a local elderly woman about the button and where I found it.The woman then tells my wife that it was also part of the Bonner farm and where I found my items was where his brother James built his house and on checking the engraving on the locket looks like it might have belonged to Margaret.(see below)You can tell by the dates that there was nothing here that long ago and the chance of finding 1800's relics are slim.
Heres a link to the history of the place.
http://www.lcfpd.org/bonner_farm/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.view
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Keith, that particular backmark means it was produced between 1790 and 1840 - and most probaly toward the earlier side of that range. Also, that particular STYLE of crown means it was made in Britain. (Until a significant degree of industrial manufacturing "got going" in the early United States, it was still necessary to import a lot of manufactured goods from England.)
On such buttons, the word "plated" always refers to Silver ...and "gilt" always refers to Gold. So your button was silver-plated.
My wife was at the store and somehow started talking about metal detecting with a local elderly woman about the button and where I found it.The woman then tells my wife that it was also part of the Bonner farm and where I found my items was where his brother James built his house and on checking the engraving on the locket looks like it might have belonged to Margaret.(see below)You can tell by the dates that there was nothing here that long ago and the chance of finding 1800's relics are slim.
Heres a link to the history of the place.
http://www.lcfpd.org/bonner_farm/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.view
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