Need help identifying WW2 button

[DiggingSicilia]

Anyone recognize this?


Thanks in advance

 

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[Mackaydon]

Is that a word in the lower arched area"
Don in SoCal

 

[DiggingSicilia]

Is that a word in the lower arched area"
Don in SoCal

It looks like it, it was found by my friend while we were out today. He hasn't gotten it all cleaned up yet. I found a RAF button, normal one. I was hoping it was an escape and evasion version.

 

[DiggingSicilia]

Is that a word in the lower arched area"
Don in SoCal

What's funny is if I Google lens search the image and button to the search terms, I get photos of Pokemon Oreos!

 

[Mackaydon]

What I see is an eagle facing left, what appears to be a French horn instrument and a cannon barrel capped at both ends--and is therefore not a cannon barrel.
Yes, cleaning that bottom area will, hopefully, aid in ID-ing the button.
Don in SoCal

 

[ncsuwolf]

anything on the reverse?

 

[Red-Coat]

I don't know what is is, but the eagle looks to be in the style used by the Italian Air Force. I wonder if what looks a bit like a cannon barrel might be a fasces (bundle of rods with an axe) which Italy abandoned as a national symbol after the fall of fascism in 1943.
I agree with @Mackaydon on the 'French Horn', sometimes referred to as 'post horn' and used by various countries as symbolism for postal services. Did Italy have a wartime air postal service? I don't know, but they certainly had a naval one, using an anchor as an emblem on uniform buttons.

 

[Mackaydon]

A fasces is also the name of the vertical image on a reverse of a US Mercury dime; representing authority.
Don in SoCal
PS: And yes, as Red-Coat mentioned, various countries placed an image of the horn on their stamps. The horn was used by postmen (or the postal office) to signal his arrival and departure.

 

[LauraLou56]

Anyone recognize this?

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Thanks in advance

IDK, it's almost like a reverse R.C.A.F bird too but facing different direction

 

[LauraLou56]

IDK, it's almost like a reverse R.C.A.F bird too but facing different direction

I can't get over how the bird almost has the "dragon" like quality of the militia and American artillery buttons 1812 or civil war- then there's the WW2 German and Italian bird that mimics them as well...

 

[Red-Coat]

Italian Air Force eagle. Similar, but not identical:

 

[LauraLou56]

Italian Air Force eagle. Similar, but not identical:

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Right, the neck and angle is different- but similar in that it has the officers braiding around the button

 

[Digger RJ]

Anyone recognize this?

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Thanks in advance

Nice!!! Congrats!!!!

 

[DiggingSicilia]

Right, the neck and angle is different- but similar in that it has the officers braiding around the button

So what appears to be writing is lightning bolts.

 

[LauraLou56]

So what appears to be writing is lightning bolts.

This button has plagued me now for weeks! I go back and forth if USA or not- curious if it may belong to a uniform from the 78th lightning band US? I see a few uniform patches with three downward lightning bolts but lightning bolts vary with either communications or electrical etc... It's been driving me bonkers this one!

 

[Gene Mean]

Nice find! Show us some cleaned up pictures if available.

 

[DiggingSicilia]

This button has plagued me now for weeks! I go back and forth if USA or not- curious if it may belong to a uniform from the 78th lightning band US? I see a few uniform patches with three downward lightning bolts but lightning bolts vary with either communications or electrical etc... It's been driving me bonkers this one!

It's more than likely Italian. The horn is the European postal symbol. With a fasces under the eagle

 

[LauraLou56]

It's more than likely Italian. The horn is the European postal symbol. With a fasces under the eagle

Well I sure hope that's it because I now know way too much about buttons! Only kidding, it's been a learning experience 😊

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Very nice !