Waterbury button ID ?

[RingMaster44]

Found this at a 1935 house. Don't know what it is. Says Waterbury button Company on the back. See Pics

 

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[nova treasure]

post 1900 Great seal button.

 

[coinman123]

Circa world war 1 great seal button.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Ringmaster44, your "Great Seal" US Army button is a comparatively rare version, having a "cutout" emblem applied onto the button's front. See button GI-103D in the button-book by Alphaeus H. Albert. Yours had black fabric behind the emblem -- some of the fabric seems to remain on your button. To view one in non-excavated pristine condition, see button on the right in the photo below. Also, unlike most Great Seal buttons, yours has an oval-shaped constellation of stars.

The Waterbury Button Company changed its name to Waterbury Companies Inc in 1943, so your button is from before that year, but (if I recall correctly) not as as old as World War One. Our fellow TreasureNet member Rockermike17368 is a specialist on Great Seal buttons, so if you send him a Private Message (not a Visitor Message) he could probably give you a more-exact "earliest" date for your cutout-emblem-with-fabric-background Great Seal button than I can. I'm sure it is from no later than 1943.
Here's how to contact Rockermike17368: http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/members/41942.html

 

[RingMaster44]

Ringmaster44, your "Great Seal" US Army button is a comparatively rare version, having a "cutout" emblem applied onto the button's front. See button GI-103D in the button-book by Alphaeus H. Albert. Yours had black fabric behind the emblem -- some of the fabric seems to remain on your button. To view one in non-excavated pristine condition, see button on the right in the photo below. Also, unlike most Great Seal buttons, yours has an oval-shaped constellation of stars. The Waterbury Button Company changed its name to Waterbury Companies Inc in 1943, so your button is from before that year, but (if I recall correctly) not as as old as World War One. Our fellow TreasureNet member Rockermike17368 is a specialist on Great Seal buttons, so if you send him a Private Message (not a Visitor Message) he could probably give you a more-exact "earliest" date for your cutout-emblem-with-fabric-background Great Seal button than I can. I'm sure it is from no later than 1943. Here's how to contact Rockermike17368: http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/members/41942.html

Thanks for the info. That was not what I was thinking it was.