military button??

[Chasintail]

First I want to say hello to everyone. I've been reading here for a couple weeks but waited until now for my first post. I had done very little metal detecting about 15yrs ago with a garrett ace cdc series. A very simple machine but it worked. It had died and I never got back into it until about a week ago when I purchased an ace 250. Anyway, on to the point of this post. I had gotten permission to hunt an old stone house that predates the civil war. I only had time to cover a very small section of the yard this evening and found 4 modern pennies, a modern quarter and a 1929 penny. Two interesting finds though... I found a lens off an old camera such as one of these

I can still read the writing on it. Apparently these cameras were manufactured in the very early 1900's.

My question is on this button you see in the picture. Any ideas?

Here is a picture of the lens.

 

[Lowjiber]

Thanks for the pictures and story...we always like em here.

Good Luck and welcome back to the "dark art".

 

[Chasintail]

A zoomed in picture of the button.

 

[Voriax]

Yep, military button all right. Colombian army.

Voriax

 

[Doebino]

All hail Voriax, the master of find identification.

 

[del]

hello and welcome to the forum

those two buttons are not exactly the same , i'm wondering if Chasintail's button is a similar style for something else ,Chasintail do you have a picture of the back of this button to give us better info ?Dan

 

[Chasintail]

Wow, that is close but the birds(eagle?) head is different and the markings on the shield also. Difficult to fathom that a columbian army button would end up at a pre civil war house 10 miles north of Gettysburg 8 inches in the ground. But hey, anythings possible!

Here are some pictures of the back.

Thanks for the help. On other forums I visit, people just call me CT.

 

[Voriax]

Yep, I noticed those differences. However, it is quite possible that the button style has changed over the years. Take a look at US military buttons, for example. That button shows Colombian coat of arms, so it is possible it is from some other branch of government service.

Voriax

 

[Chasintail]

Very close indeed. Very strange if it is due to the location I found it.
Here is a link to a picture of the coat of arms.
http://chatt.hdsb.ca/~bristowc/S07D769C0.5/12022008_74436_5.png

 

[wyoming hunter]

there are no markings on the back right, cool find with the lens that would be sweet to find.

 

[Voriax]

I looked at some pics of Colombian coins and that bird (Condor) seems to look in whatever direction it wants Also their current coat of arms is fairly new, from 1955. Previous one(s) were similar but not so clearly defined. so artistic freedom was allowed.
Perhaps deal went sour and manufacturer decided to put the buttons to domestic use..who knows?


Voriax

 

[Chasintail]

Seems to be that is what it is no matter how odd. Thanks for the help!

 

[zander10]

we did have foriegion relations with countries other than england, france and germany pre-civil war. even south american countries.