Can anyone identify these buttons?

[cburgener]

Found these in a tin full of old buttons. Can anyone identify them with approximate age? Front and back pics are same from left to right. Thanks!

 

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[ivan salis]

left to right first one "great seal" military button -- third one with harp - musician button or irish type button can't see face of it too too clearly --- fifth button with snakes * military corpsmen / doctor collar device

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

1- "Great Seal" US Army uniform button. Yours dates from sometime between 1923 and 1943, because:
(a) it doesn't have "black finish" on its front
(b) it has a raised rim encircling its front
(c) its manufacturer, the Waterbury Button Company, changed its name to Waterbury Companies in 1943 -- thus changing its backmark abbreviation from Co (singular) to Co's (plural).
2- Civilian "Fashion" button, made for use on fashionable coats and jackets... yours is from sometime in the 20th Century.
3- Civilian Musician/Band uniform button, from sometime in the 20-th Century. I have an old High School band uniform, stored somewhere in my attic, has that exact button (and backmark).
4- Civilian-usage imitation of a US Navy button, made for civilian "navy-style" pea-coats. Note that the rope which encircles the emblem does not go through the loop on the anchor's top, which it does on actual US Navy buttons. Also, actual US Navy buttons do not have a "self-shank" back.
5- US Army Medical Corps collar-disc insignia. The attachment-form on its back dates it strictly to World War Two. See photos and info in the "Unclassified Disc Type III" section at the following link:
Dating Metallic Insignia: Collar Disks
6- Civilian "Fashion" button, made for use on blazers and sportscoats... yours is from the mid-20th Century to the present.

 

[tennessee digger]

Once again, TheCannonballGuy nailed it! Good call Pete.