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These eagle with anchor buttons are always up for much debate as to their authenticity because there were some regulation Navy types that were in fact "tin backs". a "tin back" was an early two piece civil war steel back button , these were pretty limited in production when compared with the all brass two piece ones . These same (almost exact ) type of motif buttons were well used in civilian fashion much later and into the 1900's . The type of eagle and anchor on these buttons vary greatly on the civilian types . The real "tin backs" tend to have a thinner profile (flatter type button) than the civilian ones and the details on the front of the real ones is much better .