Button or not ?

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

A short hunt this evening uncovered this, seems somewhat like a button, but has a stub on the back. Maybe the back of some two piece button, as the wording is "WARRANTED" top "SUPERIOR" bottom, and some other latin on the ribbon I can't make out just yet. Only lightly cleaned with water.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Tool-handle inlay, mostly seen on wood-handle saws. Dates anywhere from the 1800s into the 1900s. Yours looks 1800s.

 

[Eddie Lomax]

It is a saw medallion. Any medallion that says Warranted Superior means that it came from a second line or poorer quality saw. First line saws would say Disston.

http://www.wkfinetools.com/hUS-saws/z_reading/WarrSuperior/warrSuperior-1.asp

 

[Kenosha Kid]

The Latin is “Dieu et mon droit”, which translates to "God and my right shall defend me". Your saw medallion is most likely a version from a Joseph Flint & Co., Rochester, NY saw. Flint was in business from 1848-1888.

http://www.wkfinetools.com/hUS-saws/Flint&Co/flint&co-index.asp

http://www.wkfinetools.com/hUS-saws/Flint&Co/tools/handSaw/handSaw-01.asp

 

[Eddie Lomax]

The Latin is “Dieu et mon droit”, which translates to "God and my right shall defend me". Your saw medallion is most likely a version from a Joseph Flint & Co., Rochester, NY saw. Flint was in business from 1848-1888.

http://www.wkfinetools.com/hUS-saws/Flint&Co/flint&co-index.asp

http://www.wkfinetools.com/hUS-saws/Flint&Co/tools/handSaw/handSaw-01.asp

He says his medallion says "warranted superior", and not "Flint superior". Disston ended up buying out all other saw manufacturers, including Flint, giving them a monoply. So this would have been a second line Flint (later Disston)

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

Thanks a lot people, don't know if I would have though of that myself or not.

And the latin is correct as well.

 

[Kenosha Kid]

He says his medallion says "warranted superior", and not "Flint superior". Disston ended up buying out all other saw manufacturers, including Flint, giving them a monoply. So this would have been a second line Flint (later Disston)

Yeah, I know it says "warranted" and not "Flint". As I stated, it's a version. Flint was the only manufacturer (that I know of) to use that particular bolt design ... the link doesn't show all medallions from every saw manufacturer. This design (the Flint saw bolt picture I posted) went into use after 1867.

http://www.wkfinetools.com/hUS-saws...66-1867-1231/72,766-1867-1231-Washburn-02.asp

Although Disston is probably the most well known manufacturer of that era, the "warranted superior" mark "once designated saws of quality that the maker was proud to call superior." “Dieu et mon droit” is actually the motto of the British monarch. Disston had a hard time overcoming English made saws, due to their superior and well known craftmanship, but eventually did so.

http://www.wkfinetools.com/hUS-saws/z_reading/WarrSuperior/warrSuperior-3.asp (English saw bolt but with a different shield)