Another Button..

[cosmic]

Found this today and was wondering the age of it.. Art metal works ,Newark, NJ.
Thanks,
Ray

 

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[Montana Jim]

Hey cosmic...

That's a U.S. Army Great Seal Button used from 1902 till the present day - replacing the flying eagle buttons represented in my avatar.

I'll hafta research back marks to see if I can close in a date... Neat find!

I can already see that Art Metal Works was patenting other objects, like flint lighters, around the turn of the century (1920s)

 

[Mackaydon]

Cosmic:
Here's a quote from the source noted below:
"The back of the button has the text "The Art Metal Works, Newark N.J. All I have been able to find on "The Art Metal Works" is that it was a company in Newark N.J. that was in operation from around 1900 to 1930. The company made all sorts of metal items. Sometime in the 1930's the company's name was changed to Ronson Art Metal Works when they begain making and selling lighters."
Don...
Source: http://www.keithballow.com/metaldetecting.html

 

[Mackaydon]

Cosmic:
Four years ago, a guy in Henderson, Texas found a similar button and posted it here on TN:
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache...NJ.+button&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=12&gl=us&ie=UTF-8

Maybe you could contact him to find out what he learned.
Don.......