"Spanish" Button "El Anillo De Hiero"

[floodcitykid]

Since we're working on butons today maybe someone can help me ID this one, I found it some time ago in a wooded area close to a civil war site in Virginia. The logo reads "el Anillo de Hiero" which I was told by a spanish speaking friend means "The weapon of steel" or "the place of steel" it also has a factory or old log house on it so my guess it is a factory or foundry and not a civil war or militiabutton but somebody with better spanish translating skills would be helpful.

No backmarks on the button, iron rusted obliterating anything like a mark.
Thanks

The floodcity kid

[jeff of pa]

The logo reads "el Anillo de Hiero"

F.Y.I.



Note: the last word should be Hierro, not Hiero (two r's)


Translation: The Ring of Iron

[Bigcypresshunter]

I think its a jean overall button. I found mention of a garment factory in Mexico using this name..

[Bigcypresshunter]

The logo reads "el Anillo de Hiero"

F.Y.I.



Note: the last word should be Hierro, not Hiero (two r's)


Translation: The Ring of Iron

Yep its a cothing/overall button http://74.125.155.132/scholar?q=cach...en&as_sdt=0,10

...After decades of war and unrest, Mexican cotton producers began toproduce jean cloth and entrepreneurs to copy and make up items of US-style clothing.Thus by the onset of the US Depression, when Mexican migration temporarily ceased,the new demand for jean clothing was already being met by factories in Mexico.
Emblematic of the industrialisation process was the factory, El Anillo de Hierro('the ring of iron'), established in San Francisco de Rincon, Guanajuato. The followingshort vignette, from Arias (1992), gives an idea of the new times:
"The owner of El Anillo de Hierro was Don Esaul Luna, son of a muleteer fromGuanajuato who had worked in the USA for 20 years as a miner and money lenderin Arizona. Returning to Mexico after the Revolution, Don Esaul sold US clothand clothing, especially jean overalls. As an experiment, he opened a small work-shop to copy the jeans using Mexican-made cloth from Coahuila. In 1929, heacquired factory premises, imported specialist sewing machines from Chicago andemployed over 200 women to sew overalls, trousers, jackets and shirts of jeanand gabardine cloth. Commercial agents took the bales of clothing by rail forsale all over the country, but the largest market by far was in Jalisco, Michoacan,Guanajuato and Aguascalientes—the migration states. In 1942, Don Esaul closedthe factory and sold his machines because workers demanded a trade union. Heclaimed that labour unrest had been instigated by communists, and he refused tonegotiate" (pages 188 -189).


sorry for the long post.

[floodcitykid]

I think its a jean overall button. I found mention of a garment factory in Mexico using this name..

Great Thanks!!! so the button is probably 1920's to 1940's?

TFCK

[Bigcypresshunter]

I think its a jean overall button. I found mention of a garment factory in Mexico using this name..

Great Thanks!!! so the button is probably 1920's to 1940's?

TFCK

yes, the factory closed in 1942.

[Bigcypresshunter]

I think its a cool find. Overall buttons are collectable. Here are some others. http://www.vintagebuttons.net/work.html