✅ SOLVED Scratching my head. Any ideas before I clean more?

[JackalopeZL1]

Hey folks, I just dug this pin in Western Tennessee this morning, about 1" wide. Anyone recognize it? I am about to try to clean up some more but might lose more detail. Figured I would ask here first.

 

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[Kray Gelder]

Unusual find! I wouldn't be able to resist scraping the crud off so I could read it. Maybe a leather strap adornment or badge. It has the pinch tabs on the back. Used to be plated, probably. I am not advising you to do that, but I would.

 

[Peyton Manning]

Top right word looks to be patent

 

[ARC]

Clean more... it is a patrol badge.

 

[nagant]

I think how to clean it without losing more, is the question.

 

[JackalopeZL1]

Unusual find! I wouldn't be able to resist scraping the crud off so I could read it. Maybe a leather strap adornment or badge. It has the pinch tabs on the back. Used to be plated, probably. I am not advising you to do that, but I would.

I do belive you are correct for the leather. I will scratch it up this evening 😀 I think it says combination on the bottom left

 

[JackalopeZL1]

Top right word looks to be patent

I think you are right

 

[JackalopeZL1]

Clean more... it is a patrol badge.

What kind of patrol? Will try some more tonight

 

[ARC]

What kind of patrol? Will try some more tonight

I am thinking its more a "school patrol" type.... but ?
Traffic guard like... or ?

I mean it could be a real badge but it does not come across as "serious".

Also toy "strap badge" type possibly.

Could be totally wrong... until you scrub it with soap and water... wont know for sure.

 

[JackalopeZL1]

I am thinking its more a "school patrol" type.... but ?
Traffic guard like... or ?

Ah gotcha, pretty sure it is for leather like Krey said above. When I get home I will try to no to destroy but get more detail off it

 

[ARC]

Edited my post.

 

[ARC]

The strap badge possibility / theory would also apply to a leather strap.

 

[Retired Sarge]

School crossing guard badge or school safety patrol badge....

 

[Sandog]

Hey folks, I just dug this pin in Western Tennessee this morning, about 1" wide. Anyone recognize it? I am about to try to clean up some more but might lose more detail. Figured I would ask here first. View attachment 2059683 View attachment 2059684 View attachment 2059685

Very interesting item. The figure, on my first glance, looks like a frontiersman.

 

[Kray Gelder]

I am thinking its more a "school patrol" type.... but ?
Traffic guard like... or ?

I mean it could be a real badge but it does not come across as "serious".

Also toy "strap badge" type possibly.

Could be totally wrong... until you scrub it with soap and water... wont know for sure.

I bet you're right about school patrol, something geared toward kids. I noticed a figure seems to have a cross-chest strap of some kind. Just like school patrol, kid's military-ish type clubs.

 

[invent4hir]

2 things that might help ID it. 1. Who or what is that character in the center? 2. Can you give any more detail where is was found and what might have been there years ago?

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Maybe it is just pareidolia, but I think I see a coon skin cap, so I was thinking something to do with Daniel Boone, so maybe it's boy scout related. Maybe a sash pin or something to that effect.

 

[Deftone]

Looks kinda like patrie on the upper right. French for country. Bottom left combination.

 

[Bramblefind]

My guess for the wording is ....... PATENT / COMBINATION .......

I tried to search for that and the only possibility I have so far is something called "Pratt's Patent Combination Brace" that was advertised in 1874. Also shown in the Montgomery Ward catalog from 1895. I'm not sure if the full wording is a match but I thought that the image on your piece could be of a man wearing a shoulder brace with the straps crossed over his back.

 

[Bramblefind]

I just found this one with a man that looks very much like the image on your piece. It is an ad from Harper's Weekly in 1872.