Need help identifying this button.
Need help identifying this button.
Hi, I'm not an expert on buttons or anything but I think it's definitively british or commonwealth because the eagle on the top of the button looks very simmilar to the eagle used on british/commonwealth air force buttons. But I'm sure someone on the forum will know exactly what it is.
Best regards,
Litwa
It would help to know where it was found.
I can't say what it is at the moment but I can say for sure that it is not Royal Air Force and does not resemble any British military button I have seen.
A larger image would be good too. Is that a word or abbreviation at the bottom or just a pattern?
The eagle in flight motif is not unusual and the central device looks like it might contain a European (ie not British) style Post Horn.
Regards
Mark
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature with no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
Hello, I would maybe be Italian because of the circular thread on the button.
The eagle looks like from an Apini unit ( mountain troops).
Where was the button found?
Regards
Jack
It was found in Sicily, what appears to be writing is lightning bolts.
Looking again the central motif appears to comprise a Fasces running through the centre of a post horn?
For anyone unaware of the term Fasces;
Fasces - Wikipedia
Mark
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature with no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
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