Eagle Button?

[TheCaribbeanDigger]

Yes it looks like an eagle button. It's a lot smaller than your typical 1800's eagle button. It's also a 2 piece but has somebody seen one of these before?

 

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https://www.etsy.com/listing/208266495/antique-brass-eagle-and-13-star-military

It really looks like this one. It appears that the eagle is on an anchor.

 

[creskol]

Being that the back isn't present, and there are signs of rust around the perimeter, one might conclude that it was tin and rusted away, making the probability rather high that it is a civilian fashion button.

 

[TheCaribbeanDigger]

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Thanks for providing a photo of the button after some cleaning to reveal more details of the emblem. Sorry, but those details confirm it is indeed a civilian-usage imitation of an actual US Navy button.. as Creskol suggested. (The imitations are used on civilian copies of Navy PEA coats and other "nautical-themed" clothing, including yachting-jackets.) Note that your button's "rope border" does not pass through the loop on the anchor's top, as it does on actual US Navy buttons ever since the present-day emblem was adopted in 1852. See the photos below, showing a gold-gilted civil war era US Navy button.

I should mention, on US Navy buttons, the eagle's head was turned from facing the eagle's left to it's right in 1941.