Marine Corps Button

Marine Corps Button

Clothing / Accessories

This military button was created for Marine officers beginning in 1821. The button has a lined field with a raised border, 13 stars across the top, and an eagle with widespread wings clasping an anchor with its talons and an anchor rope in its beak. The size of this button (28.5 mm / 1 1/8") could have been used by either an officer or an enlisted man. Unfortunately for dating purposes, these button designs remained unchanged for the rest of the 19th and into the 20th century, even though the Marines adopted the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor insignia in 1868. This button could have been made by the Scovill Company of Waterbury CT (now Morito Scovill based in Clarkesville, GA), although Albert (1969) mentions other possible companies as well, based in either Attleboro, MA or Waterbury, CT.

Albert, Alphaeus H.
1969 Record of American Uniform and Historical Buttons (1775-1968). Boyertown Publishing Company, Boyerton, PA

The Eagle, Fouled Anchor, and 13 Stars: A History of the Marine Corps' Oldest Emblem
by Second Lieutenant Kevin Rosentreter, USMC
https://doi.org/10.35318/mch.2024100201

Phoenix Project

1821-1950s?

Lauryn F.

Weight: 7.7g
Diameter: 28mm
Height: 5mm

Metal

a399 ACC 153

CCU 170