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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2600885, member: 10461&quot;]It looks like brass to me, and you can see traces of the old plating.&nbsp; I would not be surprised if you&#039;re right about it having ended up buried for a while.&nbsp; Sometimes thin silver washes came off after long burial in the ground.&nbsp; I have dug many flat buttons from the late 1700s and early 1800s that were once silver or tin plated but lost most of their plating in the ground.&nbsp; Interestingly, though the thinner silver washes didn&#039;t survive the burial, I did dig a few 1830s buttons on one site that still had strands of the original thread through the shanks![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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