antique brass buttons with symbols

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Posted by Dede Lewis

16 years ago

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Description Will attach JPEG. Four brass buttons each embossed with a different unusual symbol, which I have been told are not military in nature. The symbols are as follows; Z/D a serpentine pattern a plant form with three leaves coming from a single central stem a circle sitting on a short stalk rising from an open bottomed rectangular shape, of which each side curves slightly wider at the base. Could represent a human head and shoulders.

Category Metalware

Medium brass

Distinguishing marks symbols embossed on each of 4 buttons as in photo

Condition Good

Size and dimensions of this item 60 mm diameter

Date Period 1800's is a guess

Weight ?

History I found these buttons in a box owned by my grandmother. I don't know much more than that. Her father was a Mason, and I wondered if these have Masonic origin.

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