Never seen this before

[Rainman]

Bearing in mind that I live in a 225 year old house on the oldest street in town and everything under the sun comes out of the ground for artifacts.... I found this in a garden I created last year out by the street side of my house. I never thought to check when I turned the soil for planting. So I checked it out recently and this came out... Looks like a hat or hair pin. It seems like it was manufactured this way (Scovill MFG Co. Waterbury) and not altered to suit the purpose. I believe this is a CW infantry button, but I believe this was gilded originally. The shield the eagle is holding has not marking just stripes on the lower half with 13 stars on the upper half. I have never seen one of these before does anyone have any fact references or thoughts on it???

Don

NEW INFO.It appears (by way of CW dealer input) that this is a staff officers button either crafted or manufactured into a hat pin for the lady friend/wife of a staff officer.

I will post more info as I receive more info for everyones benefit

 

[RelicHound]

thats a very interesting find,never seen anything like that before.

 

[bottlecaps]

ill take a stab at it, i think its a button for a horn maybe a sax or a clarinet also it has a eagle on it so maybe a military horn. thats my 2 cents

 

[simonthesearcher]

I would say a hat pin,very nice.If you can see what it says on the back of it then Google it and let us know what it is.

 

[minereader]

That's a rare oddity, I'd say. Never saw anything like it. Good find, for sure....

 

[history_freak]

It says Waterbury Co...
I couldn't read all.

 

[RelicHound]

some of the CW buttons ive found have the scovill/waterbury mark on the back...dont know alot about it but i do know they made alot of CW buttons.

 

[RelicHound]

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N

these are the closest i could find..i almost guarantee its a hat pin but dont know anything about the button. just scroll down and youll see 2 military hat pins.

 

[Lou-CT]

Nice find

You might be able to find the age by matching the backmark on this website.

http://www.relicman.com/backscovillm.htm

 

[steve in so la]

that's a most unusual find. As you were told - it's an officer's button due to the outside rim. I can imagine someone making a hatpin out of a button for a loved one, Steve in so az

 

[tommyb]

I once found something like that, but it didn't have that long of a shaft part attached. Mine had some unreadable words and said 1860 on it.