✅ SOLVED anyone know what this is?

[jsgarvin]

Anyone know what this is?

 

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[duggap]

I may be wrong, but I believe you have a New York City button.

 

[Breezie]

When I first looked at it, I thought it was a State seal button from Maine, then I said, no, it's Maryland, then Wisconsin. After looking at McGuinn's State buttons, I couldn't find it. I'm not the button person, so hopefully someone will come in to ID properly.

Can you post a pic of the back of it?

Welcome to the forum. Breezie

 

[jsgarvin]

Here's the back of it. I live in Knoxville tn and this was found near Norris Lake

 

[jsgarvin]

Here's a better pic of the front.

 

[jsgarvin]

Well thanks Breezie. I can't find it either.

 

[Mackaydon]

What are the words on the banner (ribbon)?
It could also be a corporate seal.
Don..

 

[The Rebel]

Looks like a soldier & sailor on the button? Perhaps Span-Am War Button? Cool find!

 

[Bramblefind]

I think it is a Sons of Veterans button-

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Here's a medal with the same motif.

 

[Breezie]

Nice ID Bramble! Breezie

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

It is a 3-piece "Staff" type of button, with extra-wide rim, which nearly always dates that type of button to being from the mid-1870s to the early 20th-Century.

About the various components of the logo on the button:
At the top, a spread-winged eagle stands beow a ribbon with a motto. (That's obvious, so let's go on to interpreting the other images on the button.) The man standing on the left does appear to be a sailor. There seem to be the top portions of "leaning flags" flanking each of the standing men. In the center, I think I see a crossed sword, rifle, and anchor. I seem to see another ribbon-with-motto at the bottom of the button. Some clearer, better-lit photos of that area would help.

The button shows images which are found on various State Seal buttons (such as, the standing sailor, the rising sun, and the standing eagle). I think the key to identifying it is in what is written on the ribbon at the top ...and also if there is a ribbon at the bottom.

Edit: I was busy going through the Albert button-book while Bramblefind was typing ...and she is correct. It is a Sons of [Union] Veterans, New York button, shown as VN-23 in that book.

 

[jsgarvin]

Thanks everyone...you guys are great. I tried to read the banners on the button but can't make out a single letter.

 

[G.I.B.]

Thanks everyone...you guys are great. I tried to read the banners on the button but can't make out a single letter.

That is a really cool find. Congrats. Now click solved!