✅ SOLVED Brass button ID help

[CoilyGirl]

We got several of these in a box of relics with some GAR stuff and wondered if anyone could help me ID them. In the middle is an eagle,on both sides are men shaking hands over a shield that looks like it has a half moon maybe and crossed swords.on the back it says Superior Quality with two stars.

 

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[CoilyGirl]

Will take some better pictures,sorry

 

[CoilyGirl]

Here we go

 

[CoilyGirl]

Clearer screen shot....There is some Latin writing on it and SV maybe?

 

[confederate83]

Here we go

Looks a lot like a Maryland state seal but not exact

 

[confederate83]

Looks a lot like a Maryland state seal but not exact

Google th e motto on it should tell you what state it is

 

[HomeGuardDan]

cant see the picture clearly, but looks like a post war state seal button (perhaps maryland or ny?) Check out the various state emblems and you will find a match. This would be late 1800s.

Dan

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Your button is a Veterans Organization button. It is shown as button number VN-23 on page 307 in the button-book by Alphaeus H. Albert. Specifically, your button was made for the New York "division" of the national organization called Sons Of [Union] Veterans [of the Civil War]. That organization is the yankee equivalent of the Sons Of Confederate Veterans organization. Both of those organizations still exist today. The Sons Of [Union] Veterans was founded in 1881, so of course your button cannot date from any earlier than that year. I should mention, yours has a 20th-Century style of "Superior Quality" backmark. If you want to learn more about the SV, go here: Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War - Fraternity, Charity and Loyalty

 

[CoilyGirl]

Thank you so much Cannonball guy.will do some reading up on this.