got this old button from maw today

[Tim Helms]

whats this button and how old?

 

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[villagenut]

possibly a medic button. The popular snake on the pole is taken from the biblical account of the copper serpent (see Numbers 21:7-8) and has since become a symbol of health care in its many forms.

 

[duggap]

That's an enlisted man's medical corp emblem, I believe. The attachments look like the ones we had when I was in the military in the mid sixties. They were attached to the collar.

 

[nhbenz]

It's an army Medical Corps collar disk. Dating it depends on the material of the piece of metal holding the pins on. If its steel/zinc it could be WWII, but if it's brass, then it would be 1951 on. Dating Metallic Insignia: Collar Disks