We need your help!! Occasionally our Club members find something that we just can't identify. If you have any knowledge of what this thing is or just a good guess, please share with us.
New!!!!!!
This Eagle head is about the size
of a half dollar, flat on the back and appears to have been glued to something.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
This Belt buckle is at least 30 years old. Any information will be appreciated!!!
This Coat sized button was found in a known civil war site. The only
thing know
is that we have been told that the marking are Hebrew. Unfortunately,
the back is missing.
This coat Button was given to Kenneth Mayhall many years ago by his
father.
The back is blank. Any help in identifying this button will be appreciated
Looks like English/Canadian merchant marine service – WWI or II.
Steve Sciotto
The referenced button is from the Regia
Marina, the
Royal Italian Navy (from the time that
Italy had a
King, up till 1945). The wreath MAY
indicate that it
is a flag officer's button, but I am not
certain about
that. (That is the practice in the
British RN.)
Mike Cassidy, USCGAUX
This unusual lapel pin was dug in the Brice's Crossroads area many
years ago about 6" deep.
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Solved!!!!!
Somewhere in my piles I have a small poster specifically used for
this Organization, with a large image on it.
If you would like, I can look for it and scan it and send it on.
You will notice the wheat on each side of the shield.
In March of 1917 the Food Administration was formed.
This symbol was used by the Food Administration, as you can (barely)
see at the bottom of the poster pictured on this page...
http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/exhibits/war/ww1/conserve.html
(better image here)
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/sow-seeds/images/food-win-war.gif
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~tish/posterreport.html
"In August 1917, the Congress passed the Food and Fuel Control Act.
In order to help implement this act, the administration and president Woodrow
Wilson created the U.S. Food administration later that year. Operating
in each state, this organization was to assure the supply, distribution,
and conservation of food during the war, facilitate transportation of the
food and prevent hoarding, and maintain the government's power over food
by using a licensing system and voluntary agreements. Herbert Hoover
won the job of administrator for the organization, and believed a single
administrator should head the effort instead of a board. He insisted
that he accept no salary because taking no pay would give him moral authority
he needed to ask the American people to sacrifice and support the war effort.
Hoover designed an effort that would appeal to the American sense of volunteerism,
calling for sacrifices that would increase food production and decrease
food consumption. Food, he proclaimed, would win the war. Hoover
urged homeowners to sign pledge cards that testified to their efforts to
conserve food. Combining this spirit of self-sacrifice and coercion,
he was able to set wheat prices, and buy and distribute wheat. By
1918 the US was exporting three times as much breadstuffs, meat, and sugar
as it had done prior to the war. The Food Administration's advertising
section created posters for outdoor and indoor display, showing the intent
of the government to mobilize the food effort during World War I."
John Gingerich
Thanks John for the information.
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Solved!!!!!
The piece that you have on your I.D. page is a trinket that was sold
to commemorate the first 100 years of Tennessee statehood. There is a large
park in Nashville called Centennial park and it was built to celebrate
our first 100 years. On one side of the token is the Tennessee state seal
and on the other is one of the many buildings that was built for the celebration.
Thousands and thousands people came to the event. None of the original
buildings remain- except one- the replica of the famous Parthenon. There
is no metal detecting allowed in the park. Hope this helps. Donnie Vaughn
Thanks Donnie
This odd looking bullet is from the Civil War era. It is 54 caliber
with a cone cavity.
From Chuck Wood:
Just a guess, is it possible the multiple rings on the 54cal. bullet
were carved by
a bored solider from a regular two or three ring bullet??
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may be native american chest
plates. a friend found apair that was
like this one
RockHunter1965
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Some kind of Button, found in Baldwyn Mississippi
Solved!!!!!
From an article in Western &
Eastern Treasures magazine, February 1996,
"Once again we hit paydirt. I retrieved a button
made of brass, the face of the button bore the image of a three legged
eagle and around the rim were the words Es Devs Spes Nostra. Having
as a friend a priest who speaks Latin really helped. He later told me that
the words in English meant " God Is Our Hope." Further research reveled
that the eagle is a Teutonic eagle. The button may have come of a
Hessian soldier, mercenaries used by the British during the Revolutionary
War. However, modern "blazer buttons of this type are often found"
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A Hessian Soldier Button, but say that
it could be a modern blazer button reproduction. Is there a way to
tell an original from a reproduction? I found an identical button,
buried about 14 inches deep in an 1800s park alongside what was mud lake
in Pontiac, Mich. It differs from the one in your pictures only in the
construction of the back. While the one in you photo appears to have
a slot from which a wire loop could have been attached, mine has a substantial
loop about 3/32 wide that appears to be an integral part of the back. I'm
trying to find out if the button I found is an original or a modern reproduction.
Chuck Williams
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In regards to the ‘ex des spes nostra” buttons, and determining whether it is an original or a modern reproduction, here are my findings.
I came across your website when I was trying to find the meaning of the Latin motto on the buttons of a sweater that I bought just a few years ago at a thrift shop. The sweater was made in Calgary ca. 1960’s or 70’s so the buttons are almost definitely reproductions. They do not have the type of slot backing that your photo depicts. Instead they have the more substantial loop that forms the back of the button itself. I believe that the photo shows an original, and my sweater buttons (and also Chuck Williams’) are modern.
Regards,
Cal MacKendrick
We just don't know???????
Found in an area with other Civil War Relics
The item looks very much like the MK VI fuze and detonator from a 3" Stokes mortar.
J. W. V. III
Unexploded Ordnance Specialist
CEMVR-ED-DO
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We Believe that it is a Civil War Unit Pin??? Please help us out.
From Chuck Wood:
The heart shaped object appears to be a Heart Martingale from Military
Horse Harness??
It would have been incased in leather and attach to the breast strap
of the harness.
We know that this is a knife. Any other information would be greatly appreciated.
This is a reproduction Coat Button. We would like
to know
about when it was made and for what purpose. the back
is not marked.
I believe this to be a coat button from
a Civil War veterans reunion.
The UCV stands for United Confederate Veterans.
It would have been made in the early 1900s.
I hope this help you out a little.
--J.H.
This is a United Confederate Veterans button
thus the U C V around the rim and it was worn on the
uniforms that the old veterans wore at
their reunions and could date from anytime from the 1880 to the 1920's
or 30's.
Hope this helps some.
Aubrey
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