✅ SOLVED Unusual metal detecting find

[jnicholes]

I was out metal detecting and I found this in my yard buried about 4 inches underground. Just so you know, I live at what was once at church. There’s a lot of history at the house I live in.

I have no idea what it is, but it looks like there’s a crest of some kind on it. I can make out words underneath it, and my brother was able to read them and he told me that they said, “Dieu et mon droit.”

My entire family is stumped. What the heck is this, and what is it doing in Idaho?

Can someone please help me identify this?

Jared

 

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[tamrock]

Me thinks a button that was lost in Idaho.

Dieu et mon droit - Wikipedia

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[KSDirtfisher77]

Beautiful button!

 

[robertk]

It's a button from the British War Relief Society, 1940's. Examples here, here, and here.

(When I posted this I get a message about being an EBay affiliate. I am not. Perhaps TreasureNet is?)

 

[jnicholes]

It's a button from the British War Relief Society, 1940's. Examples here, here, and here.

(When I posted this I get a message about being an EBay affiliate. I am not. Perhaps TreasureNet is?)

If it’s from the British war relief Society, what the heck is it doing underground in Idaho?

Regardless, this probably has to rank as my best metal detecting find. Thank you all for helping me out.

 

[robertk]

If it’s from the British war relief Society, what the heck is it doing underground in Idaho?

Waiting for you to find it.

Stuff shows up in strange places sometimes. Maybe someone brought it home after WWII and then lost it.

 

[jnicholes]

I did not add that eBay message to my post, what’s going on?

 

[robertk]

I did not add that eBay message to my post, what’s going on?

I didn't either. I'm guessing TreasureNet has an Ebay affiliation and is automatically adding that when there's an Ebay link in the post.

 

[Red-Coat]

It's a button from the British War Relief Society, 1940's. Examples here, here, and here.

(When I posted this I get a message about being an EBay affiliate. I am not. Perhaps TreasureNet is?)

Gotta love eBay listings. I don’t think there’s anything which specifically designates it as a “War Relief Fund” button, although the organisation did use that coat of arms.

The same arms were more commonly used on “General Service Corps” buttons. The corps was established in February 1942 to provide specialists for other regiments or units. Recruits spent six weeks of training with the corps before being posted to a regiment in need of the specialist skills they had learned.

 

[Gare]

GREAT FIND