10 Vintage US ARMY Great Seal Uniform BUTTONS Metal Shank Back Mark HBW
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10 Vintage US ARMY Great Seal Uniform BUTTONS Metal Shank Back Mark HBW:
$19.99
Nine of these matching buttons measure 1-1/8 inchesacross; the tenth is 5/8 inch. Allbuttons bear the Great Seal eagle design of the United States Army. Vintagebuttons.net says this design has beenused since 1919. All buttons have wireshanks sunk into metal plugs set into the button backs; the shanks and plugsstick to a magnet. The buttonsthemselves are not metal, but I can’t identify the material. Vintagebuttons.com says when metal was scarcesome uniform buttons were made of pressed vegetable ivory – perhaps these arepressed vegetable ivory buttons from WWII.The larger buttons have a back mark reading HBW. All buttons are in excellent condition and arefrom my parents’ house.