button id needed please

[fmerg]

while out helping a local farmer try to recover his corn maze i found this piece of eye candy
need help with age value ect it is just a little larger then a quarter
(i all ready gave it to the farmer)

 

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[Bigcypresshunter]

US Army. May be Scovill. http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,212590.0.html

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Specifically, it is a US Army button from 1902 or later. It is known as a Great Seal button, because it shows the Great Seal of the United States ...which wasn't adopted for use on US Army buttons until 1902. The backmark ("Scovill Mfg. Co./Waterbury") is an early one for Great Seal buttons, so your find is most likely from the World War One era

 

[fyrffytr1]

It looks like it may have been black instead of gilt. If so that would make it 1910-1923. 1902-1909 did not have the rim. They were black or gilt from 1910-1917 and black only from 1917-1923 and gilt thereafter. They are still in use. It's a nice find but not worth anything much.