I found this in San Bernardino Mountains. In an area that has a lot of history. It looks like its a double headed egale in person. I used bar soap and water as an inlay to show the details.
This might be a fraternal collar pin.
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Double-headed eagles have appeared on the arms, flags, coinage &/or medals of Albania, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Byzantine Empire, Montenegro, Russia, and Serbia. A double-headed eagle, the Eagle of Lagash, is also the emblem of the 32nd and 33rd degrees of Scottish Rite Freemasonry.
Are those three O's superimposed on the eagle, or just ovals used as part of a stylized design? If it's fraternal, as suggested, offhand I can think of only two such organizations which had the initials OOO. One, the Order of the Owls, is obviously wrong for this piece; the other, the Order of the Orient, was a late 19th century Michigan fraternal insurance-benefit society, apparently short-lived, about which very little is known
Are those three O's superimposed on the eagle, or just ovals used as part of a stylized design? If it's fraternal, as suggested, offhand I can think of only two such organizations which had the initials OOO. One, the Order of the Owls, is obviously wrong for this piece; the other, the Order of the Orient, was a late 19th century Michigan fraternal insurance-benefit society, apparently short-lived, about which very little is known
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Thank for the replies. I think they are zeros (000) because the letter O is perfectly round and the zero is elongated (0). I actually found it in the Cajon Pass an area where the Indians, Spanish and Mormon had a trail and at one time a toll road was there. The area isn’t far from Devour and San Bernardino CA.
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