Need Help with Button kinda looks like Civil War North carolina but it's not

[treasurevaut00]

If anyone has any idea where this is from I would appreciate it.

Button is in Latin and I can't find anything.

 

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[FloodcityTom]

I beleive it is a coat button off a blazer

 

[treasurevaut00]

Like a mil of the run vintage coat or something worth something because that would be the icing on the cake on this day .smh

 

[treasurevaut00]

sorry let me rephrase that. Are you saying it is off of a relatively modern jacket? That would throw me off as it's latin ect ... I bought it as a civil war button and I kinda new it was not North Carolina but I was hoping it was something of value ... kind of like a lottery ticket... are you saying it's junk for sure?

 

[HuntinDog]

Boy I wish I could say you have something there, but to me it looks like a fairly modern sweater or jacket button...

 

[eyemustdigtreasure]

Back shows a mold mark - is it Tombac, with gilt...?

 

[ticndig]

looks like it says RASA on the bottom . that word used in India . google the words you see to solve the puzzle.

 

[treasurevaut00]

looks like it says RASA on the bottom . that word used in India . google the words you see to solve the puzzle.

Yeah Rasa is Latin and I think I see the word sigil but rasa for sure. The Latin is hard to make out and I am not sure what Tomac means with gilt?

I don't want to toss it just yet until I am sure and it is not magnetic. I guess the key will be to decipher the latin . I was thinking that if this was manufactured they would have got this seal from somewhere I doubt they made it up that would be strange if they did.

 

[treasurevaut00]

Rasa means Slate in Latin my girlfriend took 4 years of Latin she says she cant make it out but i'll try to and see what if anything it is.

 

[smokeythecat]

It's a 20th century blazer button. The inscription may or may not actually mean anything, sometimes the inscriptions are just jumbled words. A popular thing to do was to manufacture the faces to appear like they were ancient, that's more cool than something like "eat at Joe's".

 

[Bramblefind]

I don't think that word is RASA. It is read from the opposite perspective. I think the button reads "SIGILLUM CONVENTUS....... ENSIS" / "SIGILLVM CONVENTVS VERSILMOENIS?" that last word is not correct but I can't seem to get it deciphered yet. I think maybe it could be the seal of a monastery or European city...?

I'll keep looking for it but someone else here may be able to assist further.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

I believe it is a coat button off a blazer

Mid-20thc modern coat button, without knowing the dimensions it's difficult to be certain.
Based on the type of metal used, you can often determine if it's old or if it's a modern design.

“In 1918, the US government made an extensive survey of the international button market, which listed buttons made of vegetable ivory, metal, glass, galalith, silk, linen, cotton-covered crochet, lead, snap fasteners, enamel, rubber, buckhorn, wood, horn, bone, leather, paper, pressed cardboard, mother-of-pearl, celluloid, porcelain, composition, tin, zinc, xylonite, stone, cloth-covered wooden forms, and papier-mâché. Vegetable ivory was said to be the most popular for suits and shirts, and papier-mâché far and away the commonest sort of shoe button. Nowadays, hard plastic, seashell, metals, and wood are the most common materials used in button-making; the others tending to be used only in premium or antique apparel or found in collections. Over 60% of the world's button supply comes from Qiaotou, Yongjia County, China.”

This is interesting, I’ve never heard about this fear before…

“Koumpounophobia, the fear of buttons, is a surprisingly common phobia. Sufferers frequently report being repulsed by the sight of buttons, even on other people, and being unable to wear clothing with them. Sufferers also report buttons being dirty and smelling. The phobia may bear some passing resemblance to trypophobia and obsessive–compulsive disorder, but is separate and distinct.”

 

[treasurevaut00]

thanks everyone I dont think its worth the $25 I paid then .. they were selling a lot of civil war items and military items so it gave it more validity