✅ SOLVED Button with eagle clutching long arrows

[dagwood67]

Hi
I could use some help.
I found this button metal detecting. It is a two piece, not a flat. It is larger than a quarter and is mad of thin brass. I see six long shaft arrows being clutched by the claw of a bird - presumably an Eagle. Has anyone ever seen one like this? My research turns up nothing.
Thanks!

 

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[invent4hir]

Please post a picture of the reverse side with a coin or ruler.

 

[dagwood67]

Will do ASAP thanks

 

[invent4hir]

Interesting how the little details around the rim are plainly visible but the center not so much...

 

[dagwood67]

I agree!

 

[dagwood67]

Here is better picture of the front and the back and ruler shot
Thanks

 

[lenmac65]

Maybe a saw medallion. Here is one I dug recently shown next to a non dug item. Mine has a small post on it and is circa 1840s.

 

[creskol]

When enlarged to the max, those thinks don't look like arrows.
They look like clean lines with no points or feathers.

Here are the details I see:

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Spoken in my Elderly Curmudgeon voice: I've been wondering when somebody besides me would notice that the so-called arrows strangely have curved shafts. There is actually no raised emblem on this disc... just a type of brass corrosion/concretion which exhibits nearly-straight curved lines. That's something I've seen many times before this object showed up.

 

[dagwood67]

Thanks
Very new to detecting
Good information!

 

[dagwood67]

Thanks!
I guess sometimes it is like seeing faces in clouds...