Some kind of button

[eagleforce]

Dug this button up today. Not sure if its old or not. Im not to good on I.D'ing buttons. Any one know about this? Ill post in what is it too.

 

[creskol]

Looks like a WWI era Great Seal Army button

 

[eagleforce]

Wow , I think your right creskol!

 

[ATpro5]

It Has The Raised Rim So Its Probably A Little Bit Later. More Than Likely WWII.

 

[DW Dirt Whisperer]

Those are cool buttons i have found a bunch of them. surprisingly but they are out there.

 

[pl8man]

Cool find Ryan !!! I could have gone out today , I should have called you
Glen

 

[Texas Yankee]

Its definitely WII.... My buddy (car91rs) and I have found plenty of those and its always a great find!!!!!! HH

 

[fyrffytr1]

The raised rim was added in 1910 so your button could date from then. If you can make out any or all of the backmark that would help ID it's age.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

The US Army "Great Seal of the United States" button was first introduced in 1902.
From that year to 1910, it did not have a raised rim.
World War One through 1923 ones had a "black finish" applied to the brass front so that the brass's gleam wouldn' give away a soldier's position to the enemy.
As indicated above, the "black finish" was dropped after 1923 -- and has never been re-adopted for Great Seal buttons.

Eagleforce's dug Great Seal button has a raised rim but not even a slight trace of "black finish" showing, so it was made sometime between late-1923 and the present. I cannot be any more specific than that without knowing what its backmark says. The back may be too far gone to read it.

 

[Markomyt1]

Cool find!

I found one in my front yard just like this about the size of a dime.
Looks to be Copper and the backmark has scoville mfg co and something like waterbury?


Keep Digging!

 

[chkn]

Cool find. Definitely dates the search area. Anything on the back because that might tell more about the date?

 

[wv hilljack]

I found under some boards of a log home.