Button?

[Garabaldi]

Any idea what this is and how old it is?

 

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[jdsarasin8194]

looks like more of a token rather than a button, but that is only my UN-experties oppinion

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I have seen this before but do not know where to start searching.
Can you read the writing?
Is it SSLEYIATHAN?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

SS LEVIATHAN? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Leviathan

 

[jdsarasin8194]

SS LEVIATHAN? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Leviathan

I think you got it

 

[Garabaldi]

I also think you got it bigcy. So, you think its a pin or some kind of commemorative thing?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Thats one cool WWI find G. We need to match the design logo on the front to be sure IMO. But it appears to be from the German steamship S.S. Leviathan, seized by the United States Shipping Board when the United States entered World War I, 6 April 1917; turned over to the custody of the U.S. Navy in June 1917; and commissioned July 1917 as the USS Vaterland [1] , Captain Joseph Wallace Oman in command. Redesignated SP-1326 and renamed Leviathan by President Woodrow Wilson on 6 September 1917.



Heres some cool stuff on the ship.
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2258613096&topic=4535

As a transport during the World War the Leviathan carried thousands of American troops abroad. Originally designed to carry 3,400 passengers, provision was made when the ship came into war service, for 12,000 soldiers. The photograph taken above was taken with nearly 13,000 troops aboard - the greatest number ever carried by any ship.
Time and again the Leviathan crossed the Atlantic through mine fields and areas infested wtih submarines. Not once did the enemy harm her or her precious cargo of American soldiers.
Probably there is no ship in the world which rendered more valuable service to our country or occupies so high a place in the esteem of the American people.
To the thousands of "doughboys" who stood on her decks and watched the homeland fade into the horizon, she is more than a mighty ship. She seems to be imbued with life itself. And to the thousands who came back on the Leviathan each throb of her mighty engines sang a song of victory and rejoicing.
In short, a work well done has earned the appelation: "the greatest ship in the world."



Is there any solder on the backside?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I found some souvenirs from the Smithsonian but so far no match.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/collection/object_976.html



http://americanhistory.si.edu/ONTHE...rt=name&chunk=10&Category=0&Eras=8&Regions=10

What is it some kind of bird?

 

[jdsarasin8194]

posibly a crew member's button on the boat

 

[GpSnoopy]

I found this United States Lines - (SS Leviathan was one of their ships) logo used on the cup and saucer (little fuzzy, it was a tiny image and I resized it). Bears a likeness to the button's.

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/united-states-lines-steamship-ss-leviathan-cup

 

[ivan salis]

yep * us lines vessel -- button or token --see the bird type image on it -- look at the cup image above --its a match

 

[Garabaldi]

"Is there any solder on the backside?"bigcy.
I am not sure bigcy. I was hoping it was a button from one of the soldiers. Great info bigcy by the way. You guys are all a great help.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I found this United States Lines - (SS Leviathan was one of their ships) logo used on the cup and saucer (little fuzzy, it was a tiny image and I resized it). Bears a likeness to the button's.

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/united-states-lines-steamship-ss-leviathan-cup

yep * us lines vessel -- button or token --see the bird type image on it -- look at the cup image above --its a match

Im not so sure its a match. I cant quite visualize the button. It looks more like a chicken than an eagle. I see different colors in the last pic as if it was enameled. I see blue, green and possibly red or orange... Could it be a German logo before the US seized it?