Great Seal Button Backmarks Help

[Bigcypresshunter]

I am assembling a list of US Army Great Seal button backmarks 1902-present.. This seems to be the most complete list available anywhere. With the help of TN members, I am occasionally adding and improving upon it. So far I have over 100 different backmarks. Anyone with a Great Seal button backmark or backmark variation not listed please post the pic and Ill add it. The thread is already so long its not necessary to add anything already pictured. Thanks.

This is how it all started:


I bought 2 bags of small Great Seal of US buttons for a buck at a flea market. Can someone help me date these backmarks? I believe they are all post 1902. I cant find anything else online.

1- Top row SCOVILL MF'G CO WATERBURY (back ungilted)
2- SCOVILL MF'G CO WATERBURY
3- Bottom CITY BUTTON WORKS - N.Y.
4- WATERBURY BUTTON CO.

 

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[Tony (NC)]

Yet Another One

D. Evans & Co. Inc. N. Att. - 15mm

 

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[Tony (NC)]

Another Gaunt

Gaunt. N.Y. Made in England - 15mm

 

[Tony (NC)]

Last one...(Tonight)....BCH....does this count?

This is a 15mm with a screw back. It is J.C.L. Shabeck * Prov. R.I. *

 

[Tony (NC)]

One More...

This one is UGLY! Had a terrible time cleaning this one. Looks like it's been through a war or something!

Jaffe * Jaffe New York - 15mm

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Great pics. Ill add them to the list. Thanks.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Re: What is the Crossed Arrow Variety?

I dont know what it means but people are bidding. http://cgi.ebay.com/29-Original-WWI...542?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4156437c46

Does anyone know what the Waterbury crossed arrow backmark signifies?

 

[Tony (NC)]

Wow!

Somebody wanted those! That's a new one on me, but add it to the list along with this one:

CLAYTON * CHICAGO *

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I have a lot of work to do to update the list. I need to start adding the size. Thanks. Great pics.


ROSENFIELD & RAPKIN . BOSTON . 23mm
GAUNT.N.Y. MADE IN ENGLAND 15mm
J.R.GAUNT & SON INC. NEW YORK . MADE IN ENGLAND
D.EVANS & CO. INC. N. ATT. 15mm
J.C.L. SHABECK * PROV. R . I * 15mm screw post
JAFFE * JAFFE NEW YORK 15mm
WATERBURY BUTTON CO.
CLAYTON * CHICAGO *

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

In a post that never seems to end, Im adding a SIGMUND EISNER RED BANK (4 dots) variation from Steelheadwill http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,382356.0.html


and a SIGMUND EISNER RED BANK (1 dot)


I also found some steel back 15mm FRIELICH BROTHERS Great Seal hat buttons on eBay. I cant find anything on the company that made them.

 

[Kenosha Kid]

I also found some steel back 15mm FRIELICH BROTHERS Great Seal hat buttons on eBay. I cant find anything on the company that made them.

Best I could come up with ~

http://www.campbell.army.mil/campbe...ved vendors for local unit crest purchase.XLS (shows them as a supplier; however, the 904-781-2550 number actually belongs to the listing above them (Eagle Crest) and there's no address listed, unlike most)

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3287738.html (patent of 1966, issued to Frielich Brothers Corp, New York for a "frame element for uniform caps" ... researching might lead somewhere? Maybe, even though the great seal button design was adopted in 1902 and used through WW II ?

 

[Tony (NC)]

Re: Great Seal Button Backmarks Help - More Examples....

BCH....I think this is the one you posted above that no one identified:

U.B. CO. N.Y.

 

[Tony (NC)]

Re: Great Seal Button Another

ART IN BUTTONS U.S.A. (No "US")

 

[Tony (NC)]

Re: Another Horstmann Variation

W.H. HORSTMANN & CO. PHILA. PA. - 23mm

 

[Tony (NC)]

Re: Another Meyer....

MEYER METAL N.S. MEYER INC. N.Y.C. - 13mm

 

[Tony (NC)]

Re: Two more examples

*** JOHN G. HAAS *** - 23mm

 

[Tony (NC)]

Here's the 2nd one....

J.R. GAUNT & SON Ltd . NEW YORK & LONDON .

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Those are some great new backmarks and variations Tony and great pictures. Ill update the list when I get time. I have been busy working in the Everglades for FWC where I dont have internet and I only get into town once a week at the most to pick up supplies.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

More buttons for the list.

"IVORINE" 1-1/8"

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

CUMNER JONES & CO. BOSTON 7/8"

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

BERNHARD.SHRAG & CO. N.Y.