Button ID please

[litefire56]

Freshly dug today in Illinois. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!!

 

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[Red-Coat]

Waterbury lists it as one of two "HFR entangled" designs under "Career Uniforms", but with no indication of what HFR stands for.

 

[owlcreek]

Harrison Richardson firearms

 

[Red-Coat]

Harrison Richardson firearms

Do you have any reference for that, or do you mean Harrington & Richardson? The latter's monogram is H & R with a target in the middle and 1871 underneath.

Also, the order in which the letters on the button read is H F R (according to Waterbury themselves) not H R F, so it wouldn't make sense for your suggestion.

I have put the question about what the letters might stand for to the Waterbury Button Company, but haven't yet received an answer. I'll post it here if/when I get it.

 

[digger dug]

maybe a railroad button