🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Button etched w/ sailboat—date?

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Found this on a permission I’ve been detecting for a year, house built c. 1870. (Couple doors down from c. 1770 house & this was once part of that property.)

I’ve found buttons from a merchant marine uniform on this property and have traced it to a young man who lived there and served in the m.m. during WWII. (Sadly, he died when his ship was torpedoed in 1945. 😪) Anyway this button is different. Weird shank. Any ideas to date or whether it too might have been on a uniform? Can’t find anything much like it in my research.
 

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Interesting find. Hope you find out information about it. Thanks for posting.
 

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I think it may be a lapel button. Here is a picture of where it would have been worn. I would guess early 1900s.
Screenshot 2024-11-13 at 21-52-07 Men's Grey Classic Blazer Grey L Beyond Retro.png
 

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