✅ SOLVED U.S.Button - Navy or USMC

[randazzo1]

Hey all - I dug this out of a bin of about 500 buttons at my grandmother’s house. There are about a dozen of them in there. I cannot find an exact example online - but I’m thinking WW1 USMC. It’s two pieces w a brazed shank. I do not understand how to interpret the Scovill back marks. The guides place this back mark at either post 1902 or just after the U.S. civil war. I see examples of U.S. buttons online from both of those eras, but not with the eagle w the elongated neck. It is brass or bronze and a bit larger than a U.S. Quarter. Any insight is much appreciated.

Marked “Scovill Mf’g Co. Waterbury”

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Your guess is correct... US Marines button, and the "black finish" on it dates from the World War One era to 1923.

That specific version of Scovill Mf'g. Co (dot) / Waterbury (dot) with no ring(s) of any kind backmark is 20th-Century.

 

[randazzo1]

Your guess is correct... US Marines button, and the "black finish" on it dates from the World War One era to 1923.

That specific version of Scovill Mf'g. Co (dot) / Waterbury (dot) with no ring(s) of any kind backmark is 20th-Century.

Thanks a lot man. Much obliged.