Here is one for all the metal detectors

[jtw1313]

Now please help with the print lol..... Waterbury co.

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

It is a "Great Seal Of The United States" US Army button. Because it has a raised rim, and it lacks the "black" finish" used on those buttons until 1923, it dates from sometime after that year. We can narrow down its time-period even further if you can tell us EXACTLY what its backmark says. The Waterbury Button Company changed its name in 1943 to simply "Waterbury Companies, Inc." -- and changed the backmarking to say "CO'S" (the abbreviation for Companies). So, if your made-by-the-Waterbury-Button-Company "Great Seal" US Army button's backmark says "CO." it was made between 1923 and 1943. If it says "CO'S" it dates sometime from 1943 into the 21st century.

 

[jtw1313]

Scovill. Mfg co waterbury. Not sure of the first word that is what I'm seeing through loop

 

[jtw1313]

You sure that scovill name on there doesn't date it to 1850-1865

 

[duggap]

It couldn't be as that "Great Seal" button was not introduced until 1902.

 

[jtw1313]

Yeah just read it old dies were used on backs to

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Thanks for telling us EVERYTHING your button's backmark says. (All you reported previously was Waterbury Co.) As I said above, your rimmed, no-black-finish "Great Seal" US Army button can only be from sometime after 1923. The Scovill Manufacturing Company (of Waterbury CT) stopped making buttons in 1962.