ID Talon Button?

[archaeon]

Howdy, no back on this one, anyone ever seen anything like it?

 

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[PBK]

This button is listed simply as "CLAW. A pierced design mounted over a metal background; two piece. $1.00" in Hughes & Lester's The Big Book of Buttons (1981)— Plate 273, #30, pp. 620-21 No other information (age, origin, etc.) is provided.

 

[archaeon]

thanks! i have a US button i would like to find more about, any ideas?

 

[nhbenz]

I believe this would be from a 1820-1854 army "great coat". Probably a Scovill or Waterbury mark on the back? But there are many here wiser about these things than myself. Welcome to TreasureNet!