ID - Button found with ?

Just wondering.
I found this old button in a very old mullock heap.
The round disc was almost touching the button.
both were about 4 inches deep.

The disk is the same both sides.

Probably a piece of scrap - but has anyone else seen these disks before.




Neil

Good find looks like the top side of your button google old buttons heaps of pics will show up cheers Muk.

I googled and found plenty of buttons but no disks like that.

If the reverse side's dimples are depressed, then it could have been a thimble disc. Makes sense being with a button?

No they are both identical and the dimples are perfect squares and smooth
or were once

Could be of an old couch or chair.

BTY, about 4 years back, I detected and dug (read my daughter dug) a shattered thimble from hard clay, and below it's pieces was a 4.6g nugget at Wild Dog - just East of Dunolly. Was our biggest - guess some poor soul lost them - maybe tromped on the thimble with gold in it. Good thing we re-checked the hole after each piece
Re youy avatar, an Engineer would have a third option and say: "the glass is twice as large as it needs to be" - then we wouldn't have this weird discussion. Period!
Good luck on your discovery of the disc's ID. I'm out of clues.

Well I will go back and triple check now.
Damn 5 hour drives

I think those two pieces probably used to be together, inside a flat, cloth-covered button, with the disk mounted on top of the attachment section as a former/support for the cloth covering.

BigWave you are a genius!
Mackka :Y: