Identify button please

[Deleted member 70749]

I found this button in Petaluma, CA and I would like to know if any of you know what it could be. It was right on top of the surface!

 

[solaryellow]

My uneducated guess is 5th Cavalry, C company. Not civil war, crossed rifles came 1875,,,most likely infantry button of later military branch.

 

[Beeps in my sleep]

Post in the What is this forum. Cannonballman and the rest will tell you faster than you can say great googly moogly

 

[Tom_in_CA]

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I've found those type buttons (or "collar pins"?) here in Monterey, CA, in context with the military who didn't move to re-garrison the presidio here, till 1902. Hence that could be as new as post 1900 - ish.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

It's not a button -- it is a collar-insignia disc. Specifically, It is a US Army Infantry collar-insignia disc, and yours dates from 1917 to 1918, because it is "solid cast" (the emblem is an integral part of the disc, not applied separately) AND it has both the Regiment-number and Company-letter with the crossed rifles.

For detailed info (with photos) on dating US Army collar-insignia discs, go here:
Dating Metallic Insignia: Collar Disks

 

[Thommy]

It's not a button -- it is a collar-insignia disc. Specifically, It is a US Army Infantry collar-insignia disc, and yours dates from 1917 to 1918, because it is "solid cast" (the emblem is an integral part of the disc, not applied separately) AND it has both the Regiment-number and Company-letter with the crossed rifles.

For detailed info (with photos) on dating US Army collar-insignia discs, go here:
Dating Metallic Insignia: Collar Disks

Yes, as usual TheCannonballGuy is right on, INFANTRY is crossed muskets, Cavalry is crossed sabers. That's a World War One INFANTRY collar disk for sure.