🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Mystery button

perdidogringo

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Hi All,

I found this mystery button in a forest preserve in the Chicago area today. I believe it is brass. On the front, It has an interesting cross with a ball in the middle with 4 "arms" jutting out from it. Although the back isn't in good shape, I believe I can see the following script, "B & P Extra." Unfortunately, I can't find anything online.

Can anyone identify this button? Thanks in advance!
 

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Perdidogringo said:
> I believe I can see the following script, "B & P Extra."
> Unfortunately, I can't find anything online.

That's because the backmark actually says "B&B" -- which would be the button-making firm of Benedict & Burnham, which was in business in Waterbury CT from 1834-1843.

Before anybody asks:
No, I do not recognize the extremely unusual emblem/logo on the button's front. Of course I've seen a cross, but never seen a disc with 4 bent golf clubs arranged equidistantly. The "bent golf clubs" actually remind me of the bent B-17 bomber aircraft propeller blades seen in WW2 photos when the bomber had to land on the concrete runway without a landing-gear (wheels). Of course, that can't be on an 1830s/40s button. Has anybody here ever seen that strange emblem in an early-1800s context?
 

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Perdidogringo said:
> I believe I can see the following script, "B & P Extra."
> Unfortunately, I can't find anything online.

That's because the backmark actually says "B&B" -- which would be the button-making firm of Benedict & Burnham, which was in business in Waterbury CT from 1834-1843.

Before anybody asks:
No, I do not recognize the extremely unusual emblem/logo on the button's front. Of course I've seen a cross, but never seen a disc with 4 bent golf clubs arranged equidistantly. The "bent golf clubs" actually remind me of the bent B-17 bomber aircraft propeller blades seen in WW2 photos when the bomber had to land on the concrete runway without a landing-gear (wheels). Of course, that can't be on an 1830s/40s button. Has anybody here ever seen that strange emblem in an early-1800s context?
Thanks for the feedback, Cannon! When i found the button, it did remind me of a couple of buttons I found along the Camino de los Cruces in Panama a few years back; they were military buttons from the wars of independence from Spain in the 1820s. I really didn't think it was possible to find such an old relic in the S/W suburbs of Chicago, where history is lacking (well, history involving lost metal anyway).

I hope someone can identify the logo on the button's front. I'm wondering if it was worn by some sort of clergy?
 

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Can you post a photo of the front without the penny in the photo, I'm trying to do an image search but all the results are of a penny and similar coins but not a similar button/design.
 

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Can you post a photo of the front without the penny in the photo, I'm trying to do an image search but all the results are of a penny and similar coins but not a similar button/design.
Here you go... Thank you!
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You might have to resign yourself to the fact it is only a design with absolutely no meaning.
Fair enough, although it seems quite an elaborate design to have no meaning. Thanks for your feedback, though. I guess we all want to think our finds are special, even when they might not be. :laughing7:
 

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