No, unfortunately.  It's a shank type without any backmarks.

Lucy Jones
Panamerican Consultants -- Tampa


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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Kris
Oswald
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 4:12 PM
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Subject: Re: button ID help request


Is there a backmark?

-----Original Message-----
From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Carol Serr
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 3:45 PM
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Subject: Re: button ID help request

Wow...that's a Lot of stuff (elements) on ONE button!  I don't know
anything about Civil War relics...or buttons...but can't pass up a
challenge to search the net. heh heh.

Have you checked this site?:
http://www.relicman.com/butc.htm

And then you could always post your query on such a relic hunters forum
as
this:
http://www.treasurenet.com/forum/relichunting/archives/19990906/

I see several button ID postings here...



At 03:17 PM 6/30/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>If anyone has any information that could help in identifying the
>symbols on a button found during a recent project, it would be
>appreciated.  I have a photograph of the button and a sketch of the
>symbols and will be more than happy to email them to you at your
request.
>
>During Phase II excavations at site 8ES2769 (Billingsley Tract) at
>Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, a machine-stamped copper button
>(approx. 1.5 cm in diameter) was recovered.  The manufacture technique
>dates this button from the mid- to late-nineteenth century.  This
>button depicts an unusual group of symbols on the face, which consists
>of a variety of elements such as a two-story building that appears to
>be a church, a floating two-masted boat, water ripples, a clump of
>grass and/or reeds, a snake, a stylized fish, possibly two butterflies,

>stars, circles, two stylized torches, and three chain links depicted
>horizontally.  Other geometric symbols depicted near the edge of the
button are not easily discernable.
>
>The time periods represented at the site are mainly early
>American/antebellum, Civil War, and reconstruction into the twentieth
>century.  A portion of the site was once a part of the
>mid-nineteenth-century Warrington Village, which was constructed around

>the Navy Yard at Pensacola.  Most of the village was destroyed during
>the Civil War and never rebuilt.  In 1906, a hurricane struck the area
>and any structures left standing were completely razed after the storm
>destruction was cleared away.  In the 1930s, two-story brick officer's
>quarters were constructed in this area and remain today.
>
>Cyndi Sims
>Panamerican Consultants, Inc.
>Tampa, Florida
>(813) 884-6351
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