Badge or Button Philadelphia 1876 Found in Moldova!

[Eugeniu]

Hello everybody!
Yesterday I went to the forest to search for treasure)) but nothing caught except one badge ((
When I dug it out I was very surprised)) because I can not understand how we in Moldova could have this American badge of 1876? America is very far from us)))
Please tell me what is this badge?

 

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[Tpmetal]

I'm not sure exactly but it seems like the building might be memorial hall? the first official worlds fair was held that year in Philidelphia. I would start my research there.

 

[vpnavy]

I moved this request from Today's Finds! over to Our Discoveries > What Is It? for more exposure.

 

[PA Sleuth]

Likely from the Centennial celebration held in Fairmount Park

 

[Tpmetal]

Likely from the Centennial celebration held in Fairmount Park

Thats what I was trying to think of, I knew they hadn't called it the worlds fair back then even though now it's referred to as the first worlds fair.

 

[PA Sleuth]

And it looks like a hat badge with that screw post back

 

[Tpmetal]

And it looks like a hat badge with that screw post back

good eyes on that, I would say this is pretty much narrowed down now

 

[DCMatt]

It does look like a hat badge.


1876 Philadelphia World Expo.


This is not an exact match but similar. It is a souvenir token.

 

[nhbenz]

What size is it? My first thought was collar disk, for the same reason as a hat badge (the screw post). But I agree, based on the proportions that a hat badge seems more correct.

 

[Bramblefind]

The back attachment looks similar to this stud button from the 1876 Exposition - maybe not not a screw post but possibly the ring around the post has come detached and fallen down the post making it look like a screw post?

I agree on needing the size to narrow it down.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-brass-button-rare-philadelphia-1876

 

[Eugeniu]

Rear not screw
The button itself on the idea should go up
I tried to move it a little and it a little rose it is visible on new photos, also I made measurements
In the pictures from Bramblefind the back side of this badge is very similar
All the same, I wonder in what year this badge was released
Is it really in 1876 and much later?

 

[PA Sleuth]

It is likely from 1876. The Centennial celebration was held in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia's largest park. It was very much like a world fair. Different countries from around the world sent exhibitions. That pin or hat badge likely belonged to an exhibitioner. There is a scale model of the fairgrounds, and a small exhibit on the fair in the basement of the Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia, which is in Fairmount Park. Ironically enough... metal detecting is not allowed in Fairmount Park.

 

[DCMatt]

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[Doubter in MD]

This may have been asked and answered but I didn't see it. What letters and possibly some numbers across the top of this badge/button?

 

[Eugeniu]

There are only inscriptions on this badge exhibition philadelphia 1876
There is nothing else ((