Button Help

[GaYankee]

I found this a while back at a late 1800's school. It was found by a big oak tree where they had bulldozed the sidewalk up. I couldnt find any info on it but im sure you experts can tell me something about it. The back is pretty rusted so i cant tell if there is a backmark or not.

 

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[CRUSADER]

Its a musicians thingy

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Looks like this Band Uniform button.

http://www.waterburybutton.com/user-cgi/patterns.cgi?catg=Career Uniform&subcatg=Band Uniform


http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,162385.0.html

 

[GaYankee]

At one point about 3 months ago i saw a button on ebay kinda like mine with the 2 prongs on the back and they said it was a helmet button because of the prongs. So maybe its a Musicians helmet button? Wish there was a way to date it. Will hooking it up to electrolysis knock enough rust off to give a back mark without hurtin the button?

 

[KTMRIDER]

The "musicians thingy" is called a Lyre (an ancient Greek stringed instrument of the harp class).

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

At one point about 3 months ago i saw a button on ebay kinda like mine with the 2 prongs on the back and they said it was a helmet button because of the prongs. So maybe its a Musicians helmet button? Wish there was a way to date it. Will hooking it up to electrolysis knock enough rust off to give a back mark without hurtin the button?

Somehow I missed this old post. Yes I think it was a musicians helmet/hat button. There was a button on each side. SodaBottleBoB can help you here.

 

[SODABOTTLEBOB]

I'm not sure, (the image is a little blurry), but the button on this band hat looks "similar." But it is obviously not larger than a quarter as indicated on GaYankee's original image above.

SODABOTTLEBOB