✅ SOLVED U.S. brass button. What time period/war?

[sarawisman]

Found this today where we've found several Civil War relics. I don't think it's from that time period but not sure...any ideas?

Metal: brass (small threaded screw back)
Size: Approx. the size of a quarter. Slightly smaller.

Thanks for looking and HH!

 

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[duggap]

That is a US Army collar insignia. It looks like the ones I wore and I was in from 1964 to 1967.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Duggap is right, it is a US Army collar-disc insignia. To learn all about them, and how to date them, go here: Dating Metallic Insignia: Collar Disks

Yours dates from 1937 to 1945. Yours is described at that website as an "Unclassified Disk Type (Type III Variation)" -- a rare variety of the World War Two era discs. Scroll a little past halfway down the webpage to see one exactly like yours. Also, just above it, see the descriptive info on Type III discs -- which had a separate emblem that was applied onto the disc by means of a threaded stud, as shown in the "dis-assembled" photo, below.