Brass Badge?

[Woodbooger]

Dug in western VA

 

[creskol]

Sounds strange, but it might have to do with model railroading.

 

[Bramblefind]

Could it be an early bicycle badge...? The Northampton Cycle Co. of Northampton, Mass did make a "Northampton" bicycle.

This is from 1898-

 

[bologna321]

Could it be an early bicycle badge...? The Northampton Cycle Co. of Northampton, Mass did make a "Northampton" bicycle.

This is from 1898-

Good guess

 

[Bramblefind]

Here's another ad from 1896 ----

 

[dgoodyear]

If you do a search for old bicycle head badges or similar you can find a lot of vintage ones that have that same style. I've not seen that one specifically yet but that seems a good guess. Here's a page with an image though of what they look like which is similar. Pretty neat find. https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/headbadge-hunter/

 

[A2coins]

By george I think he got it . That is really cool

 

[Woodbooger]

Wow guys you nailed it! Thanks for the crazy quick response.

 

[Anduril]

At first, I didn't see the "M" in Northampton Mass, so it got me to thinking about politicians in Western Virginia.