Button I.D. Anyone?

[Swartzie]

Found an unusual button today while digging around an old site. Not even sure if it is a button, but sure looks like one. Any ideas on the symbols?
Thanks for looking.
-Swartzie

 

[CRUSADER]

Is it a train, looks like it?

 

[PBK]

Early 1900's work clothes button. A number of buttons with similar locomotive designs are listed in Baker's Railroad Collectibles, Hughes & Lester's The Big Book of Buttons, and Adams & Albert's A Descriptive Catalog of Pictorial Buttons Worn on Work Clothing, 1900-1935.

 

[72cheyenne]

Early 1900's work clothes button. A number of buttons with similar locomotive designs are listed in Baker's Railroad Collectibles, Hughes & Lester's The Big Book of Buttons, and Adams & Albert's A Descriptive Catalog of Pictorial Buttons Worn on Work Clothing, 1900-1935.

To follow up on what PBK and the others have said, here is a link with many different designs of train buttons that have been found. http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,223103.0.html

 

[Swartzie]

Train button indeed! I rotated the picture and the train can clearly be seen. Cool button.

I have been messing around on this site that's on a 1912 map. There are no foundations or structure of any kind remaining. Just a field. But off in the woods there are several mounds of dirt piled up. Right on the edge of the woods. So it appears whatever remains of the old structures were bulldozed off into the woods. This button was found on top of one of the mounds. This would be a good site for a sifter. I'll have to keep that in mind. I'm glad to find a button, but I sure would like to find my first barber before winter sets in.

Thanks for the excellent info guys.
-Swartzie