✅ SOLVED Annual Encampment Badge/Medal?

[Yak1366]

Hello Again & Happy Thanksgiving! Found this item a while back in an area with history from CW to WWII. All I can make out is that it reads "Annual" at the top and "Encampment" at the bottom. And at the 10 o'clock & 2 o'clock position there is a capital S overlaid with a V. Not saying its anything special, kind of looks like a police badge. The single ring is still intact at the top like it may have hung from a ribbon?

 

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[jewelerguy]

part of a civil war veterans reunion pin/ribbon/badge. not sure of year or if it's northern or southern veterans. maybe you can soak some of the crust off of it

 

[Yak1366]

Thanks for the info jewelerguy. I recall searching for this piece when I found it and never came to find a matching image on google. Now after googling your description, I see I have a "Sons of Veterans" (S over V) reunion badge. There are also "Sons of Union Veterans" badges (S,U,V overlaid in the same fashion). I'm going to keep digging and leave the post unsolved for now. I'd really like to know if anyone can date it more accurately as it seems to be a lot less fancy than the ones I see on the google result.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

The distinctive intertwined SV logo on it represents the Sons of Veterans, which is the yankee equivalent of the Sons of Confederate Veterans organization. See a Sons of Veterans uniform button in the first photo below. Second photo shows SoV of New York even had their own NY-state-related emblem on their 3-piece (Officer) SoV buttons.

Saying "Annual Encampment" indicates it has a year-date on it somewhere... but perhaps not. You could probably find a match-up for it by websearching Sons of Veterans convention or reunion badges.

To help find an exact match-up, you might want to try gently cleaning some of the green crust off the badge's center, to see what sort of emblem it has.

After-posting edit:
I see the finder, Yak1366, did some websearching while I was typing this reply and adding the photos to it. So basicly, I'm just confirming that it it a Sons of Veterans convention badge.

 

[Yak1366]

I am in awe of the knowledge base I have subscribed to by joining this website. Thank you gentlemen.

The second pic you posted cannonballguy had me looking closer at the badge for elements of that design. I now see the shield with the sun rays, the man on the left and the triple banner at the bottom.

This link: About the SUVCW ? Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
defines that it was issued between 1881 & 1924, between the time of the GAR & SUVCW.

 

[Davers]

Another awesome Civil War related find.

Very Cool. Very!