ID a Military button plz Cavalry? French?

[FloodcityTom]

Asking help from the Forum if anyone can ID this Military button I obtained in a auction lot. The button is brass, non dug no back mark crossed sabers and the "lances" with swallowtail guidons are almost certainly cavalry, looking close one can see traces of red white and blue on the guidon flags. It may not be US, Could this be French? I beleive they used the lances.

 

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[smokeythecat]

I think its a fairly modern blazer button. That shank style wasn't invented until well after the civil war. I have some jacket here that are relatively new with the same button back.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Note that the shaft of the crossed lances has a blade at both ends. Also, each lance is "flying" a swallowtail Guidon pennant. Although the pennant on your button's crossed lances has three stripes instead of two, everything else about them is a match for the crossed lances on a Spanish Royal Army's Cavalry button from the Spanish-American War era. See the photo below.

As Smokeythecat mentioned, your button's body-form suggests it is from the 20th-Century. Due to the advent of machine-guns in World War One, Cavalry had pretty much "gone away" by the 1930s. So my guess is, your button is Spanish Cavalry from the early 20th-Century, probably World War One era. But of course, my guess could be wrong.

 

[FloodcityTom]

Thank you Gentlemen, the button's are indeed Spanish Cavalry "lancero's". Post Spanish America war so WW1 is about right, made by waterbury...possibly dress uniform.