Help ID "U.S." Military Insignia Pin/Collar Disc......

[Rowdy Yates]

Help ID "U.S." Military Insignia Pin/Collar Disc......

I found this military insignia a few years ago in an area that was giving up early 1800's to modern stuff. There are no makers-marks. It's just a little bigger than a quarter and is made from three pieces.

The top piece is the "U.S." part of it, which is made of brass and has a threaded post on the back.

The second piece is a curved brass plate with a square hole in the center.

The third piece appears to be copper, and has two bent square nails through it. The circular hole in the middle is threaded and it threads onto the post on the back of the "U.S." part.

Any help with the ID (Collar disc?? seems a little big and heavy and with nails?) and especially the age would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks,

Rick

 

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[trk5capt]

Re: Help ID "U.S." Military Insignia Pin/Collar Disc......

Rick, You Have A WW2 U.S. Army Collar Brass. trk5capt..

 

[TreasureTales]

Re: Help ID "U.S." Military Insignia Pin/Collar Disc......

Rowdy, you posted GREAT photos. Everybody wanting an ID should be as good at posting pix. I'm being totally sincere here, you showed the button from obverse and reverse and even took the thing apart to show its three pieces. Fantastic job of the photos. Hope others here will do as good a job when they show stuff. What kind of a camera do you have? I've got a few things I'd like to photograph and post, but I haven't yet purchased a digital camera. I'm open to suggestions on brand and model. Thanks.

 

[PBK]

Re: Help ID "U.S." Military Insignia Pin/Collar Disc......

Rick, You Have A WW2 U.S. Army Collar Brass. trk5capt..

When Trk5capt calls it, it's called!

It appears to be a c. 1940's U.S. Army enlisted man's collar disk. It would have been worn on the right collar; a disk bearing the soldier's service branch (artillery, cavalry, infantry) or corps insignia would have been worn on the left collar.

 

[MiddenMonster]

Re: Help ID "U.S." Military Insignia Pin/Collar Disc......

I've got a few things I'd like to photograph and post, but I haven't yet purchased a digital camera. I'm open to suggestions on brand and model.

There are two primary questions you have to ask yourself when deciding. The first is how much are you willing to spend? The second is do you want a point and shoot or an SLR camera? If you are not willing to spend more than a few hundred bucks you are limiting yourself to a point and shoot camera. There are many good cameras in this range, but you have trade-offs regarding the optical vs. digital zoom, minimum focus distance and megapixels. An optical zoom actually draws in the subject. A digital zoom crops out all but center of focus, and the quality of the image decreases as you digitally zoom. Most point and shoot cameras have a combination of optical and digital zoom function. You also need to decide what kind of photography you are going to use the camera for. If you plan to take a lot of close up shots you need to purchase a camera with a small minimum focus distance. Otherwise you will get a tiny image and have to blow it up. If most of your pictures will be posted on the web or printed in small sizes you can get away with a lower megapixel camera that is heavy on the other features. If you are willing to spend more, you can choose from several digital SLR cameras. Canon, Olympus and Nikon are the most popular here. With an SLR you can switch out lenses depending on your application. I think the Canon Rebel and Nikons have 10 megapixel cameras out now, but they run about $1000. Last month, after more than a year of research I bought the Olympus E-500. It's an 8 megapixel camera that comes with two kit lenses--a 14-45mm and a 40-150mm. The lowest price I've found is $699 at Sam's Club. If you buy it on the Internet it's even lower--$668.00. I have a friend with a Sam's Club membership and I talked him into letting me purchase it on his card. Out the door price was right at $800. I've since bought a macro lens for $200, and am planning on purchasing an extension tube that will let me focus as close a 1". It was a big chunk of cash, but part of my plan was to use the camera for money making projects. So, I've cringed at the upfront costs of my camera, but I am very happy with it. I think the Canon and Nikon cameras come with one lens. None of the dSLR cameras come with memory. You can get one of those for as little as $30. I'm currently shooting HQ JPG images, and can fit about 550 on the card. The Olympus, and I think all the dSLR's will also shoot in several grades of JPG, TIF and RAW formats. If you want to blow your images up to 8 x 10 or larger this is important. When you edit a JPG and save it you lose 3%-5% of the image quality. When shooting in TIF or RAW formats you can edit and save the images (just don't save over your original image, change the file name when saving) without loss of quality. You can also save the final output image in JPG format so the file size is smaller.