✅ SOLVED Great Seal Button??

[wayfas4u]

Found an old home site in cotton field, hard to swing but this is all I came up with. I think it's a Great Seal Button, please help anybody?

 

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[osage express]

Yes great seal button.Raised rim it was made after 1923 .Nice find

 

[wayfas4u]

Thanks Osage Express, so the raised rim is the defining point! Thank you for sharing this info. I appreciate it.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

The raised rim was added to "Great Seal" US Army buttons in 1910. In the World War One era, they had a "black finish" applied to the front so that the yellow-brass button would less less visible to the enemy in combat. The "black finish" was discontinued in 1923 (and never resumed).

I should mention, the "black finish" was thin, therefore, heavily-used buttons show the black has worn off of the high parts of the emblem and the rim. But the black tends to remain in the grooves of the horizontal-lined background around the emblem. Although your button is incompletely cleaned, no black is showing in the lined background, so it is probably a post-1923 one. You might want to clean it better, to make sure there is no "black finish" anywhere on it.

 

[fyrffytr1]

Wasn't the button from 1910 to 1917 available with either the black or gilt finish? At least that is what I get from McGuinn and Bazelon's book.