🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Military shield?

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

A buddy found this today and I’ve done an hour or more of research and have no clue what it’s from or is.

Thanks!

 

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[boogeyman]

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A buddy found this today and I’ve done an hour or more of research and have no clue what it’s from or is.

Thanks!

Don't know why but Union Pacific RR comes to mind.

 

[garren]

Maybe the ornate plate from the side of a WWI trench art lighter? I saw a bunch of designs but none that matched yours exactly

 

[smokeythecat]

I was thinking railroad also.

 

[fyrffytr1]

Judging by the two holes in the back there may have been a bar between them. So, I think it might be a rosette

 

[Dougie Webb]

@Diggin-N-Dumps if you haven't tried it, go to images.google.com and upload as clear and tight of a picture of that as you can. It often helps me in identifying stuff.

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

I thought it was Pacific Railroad too but haven’t seen 1 that had the stars at the top. This was the only thing that matched the design

https://jeffbridgman.com/inventory/index.php?id=422&page=out

It mentions in the article American Railway Express Company. So I’m guessing it’s just a decorative piece or maybe tied to that

I figured it would have been an easy military brass but now I’m just puzzled lol

 

[Tpmetal]

That is the federal shield with 13 stars representing the original 13 colonies. Widely used over a pretty long period of history in both military and civilian design. Will be a hard one to pin down where this came from

 

[Tpmetal]

To give you and idea of how big a date range, the design was submitted to congress in 1782 I think and accepted that day. so we can assume use came sometime shortly after. I have seen common use in design in objects well into the 1900s. so easily a 150 or so years of fairly common use.

 

[creskol]

Judging by the two holes in the back there may have been a bar between them. So, I think it might be a rosette

You are 100 percent correct .. it is indeed a patriotic rosette. Nice Call!

 

[GoldieLocks]

It is a clay impression that his item gas been pushed into/bas relief by an artist.

 

[pepperj]

It is a clay impression that his item gas been pushed into/bas relief by an artist.

Can you explain that most confusing reply.