Curios about the date.

[deb55]

Cool button.

Also the rock is beeping with pinpointed. It is light in weight. Could it be. Meteorite.? How can I test it to be sure

 

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[HutSiteDigger]

Can you read the back-mark on the US Great Seal button?

 

[cti4sw]

Also the rock is beeping with pinpointed. It is light in weight. Could it be. Meteorite.? How can I test it to be sure

I find a lot of responsive rocks, and I have also not figured out why they respond to the MDs. From what I gather, though, meteorites are very dense and heavy for their size, and the responsive rocks I find are all very light. One of these days I'll save one and break it open to see what I find, and I'll post the results.

 

[Crzyhors]

I believe that most meteorites are high in iron... check to see if it's magnetic.

 

[CoilyGirl]

Love that button and hopefully you can get a date or time period on it soon.

 

[Bryanhashemi]

Hot rock

 

[mascotwoods]

I found a Great Seal button like that, other than the back looks a little different. I'll see if I can find it again, and post a pic. I think it was from around WWI.

 

[deb55]

Not,magnetic but read up on hot rocks.

 

[deb55]

I am letting it soak in olive oil, not sure what else to try to,clean it up. Any suggestions?

 

[Bryanhashemi]

Not,magnetic but read up on hot rocks.

What do you mean? Not magnetic? Just trying to understand your statement

 

[deb55]

The rock i found in the photos is not magnetic.

 

[Bryanhashemi]

A lot of things can be non magnetic. Aluminum for example. Actually most meteorites will have some magnetic pull with common household magnets.

 

[filmiracle]

123

 

[OneWetKnee]

I can see the "bur" from "Waterbury" in the back mark I believe. Judging by level of wear I would have to say WW1 or 2. Hard to narrow it down further than that in its condition.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Deb55's US Army "Great Seal" button has a raised border encircling the emblem, so it is post-1910... but it also lacks the "black finish" that was applied to these buttons until 1923, so it was manufactured sometime after 1923.

Its backmark appears to be "Superior Quality" -- which is almost useless for dating a 20th-Century button.

 

[huntsman53]

The rock looks like a piece of slag from a smelter and the button appears to be Vietnam Era possibly 1960's to almost present.


Frank

 

[mascotwoods]

Sorry for the bad pictures, but here it is. American Button Co.

 

[deb55]

Updates photos of button

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Thanks for photos showing your 1923-to-present version of Great Seal button after cleaning. They show it is has gold gilt (goldplated), so it is an Officer's button. The backmark photo shows what I suspected -- it is "Superior [star] Quality [star]" and is written in late-1800s-to-present non-serifed (plain block) lettering, with three circles of dots. That specific version of Superior Quality backmark is from the first half of the 20th-Century. Since then, most backmarks have gotten "plainer," omitting unnecesssary backmark detail-work like the triple circles of dots.