1924 Dog tag, Smokehouse lock

[BobinSouthVA]

found these items recently on a few trips to a new site. Working on getting the lock cleaned up. It's the largest one I've found thus far. Unfortunately the button back is gone.

I dug the bottle while digging the lock. there was another big piece of iron in the hole. Absolutely amazed I didn't crack the bottle as It was only the second trip with a new digging shovel one of my hunting buddies made for me.

Thanks for looking and HH.

 

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[g-olden years]

I like this button where the eagle is leaning down holding the anchor. I haven't seen this type before, and I know little about buttons. Is this leaning eagle button found often? The many others I've seen on t-net have eagles standing straight up just like one that I found. Andi

 

[BobinSouthVA]

I like this button where the eagle is leaning down holding the anchor. I haven't seen this type before, and I know little about buttons. Is this leaning eagle button found often? The many others I've seen on t-net have eagles standing straight up just like one that I found. Andi

I have found one of these before but that backmark could not be read.

I think it is a Marine Corp button. from what I understand they used this design for a considerable amount of time so without a backmark its hard to nail down a timeframe.

http://www.civilwarbuttons.com/uscentrlist.htm

UC112 or UC115 on that link

 

[StevoCBR]

Very cool

 

[BobinSouthVA]

Very cool

Thanks StevoCBR