Foreign military button finds French, German, USA etc
French Army buttons

French Infantry Button 19th Line Regiment Circa 1803-1814	French Infantry Button 52nd Line Regiment Circa 1803-1814	Early French Napoleonic 82nd Line Regiment Circa 1803-1814	'troops middle-class woman and irreguliéres 1790 there is the name of the “district” written above “the nation the law the king” '

French Infantry Button 69th Line Regiment Circa 1803-1814	64th Regiment French button	'Militaines Ineiamiers' Early French 'it is a button of military male nurses (1875-1914)',	French civil button

Infanterie de ligne (1871-1916)

Infanterie de marine (1870-1916)	52nd French regiment button Circa 1803-1814	June 1835 to 1884 French

French artillery after 1914-18		French Napoleonic artillery button - one piece	???

French Napoleonic artillery button - one piece Bouton d'officier du 1er regiment à pied et des compagnie d'ouvriers et d'armuriers de l'artillerie 1804-1811		French Infanterie de ligne (1871-1916) AM & Co Paris	This is an old Army Engineers button, either French or Italian.

French Infantry Button 119th Line Regiment Circa 1803-1814		French Napoleonic artillery button	French Infantry Button 115th Line Regiment Circa 1803-1814

This is an old Army Engineers button, either French or Italian.		French Infanterie de ligne (1871-1916) AM & Co Paris	French police GEMDARMERIE NATIONALE NATIONALE Back mark AM&Co 23 M Paris

34th French regiment of the line - Napoleonic period		Post revolution Republic of France Army button	French Infantry Button 67th Line Regiment Circa 1803-1814

French Infantry Button 26th Line Regiment Circa 1803-1814		Early French Napoleonic 67th Line Regiment Circa 1803-1814	French Infantry Button 3rd Line Regiment Circa 1803-1814

French Napoleonic artillery button - one piece Bouton d'officier du 1er regiment à pied et des compagnie d'ouvriers et d'armuriers de l'artillerie 1804-1811		French Infanterie de ligne (1871-1916)	French Infantry Button 93rd Line Regiment Circa 1803-1814

French Infantry Button 20th Line Regiment Circa 1803-1814		French Infantry Button 46th Line Regiment Circa 1803-1814	French Infantry Button 13th Line Regiment Circa 1803-1814

French Infantry Button 60th Line Regiment Circa 1803-1814
French 39th Regiment of line button French Order of Battle Leipzig 1813 39th Infantry Division: GdD Jean-Gabriel Marchand 1st Brigade: GM von Stockhorn . . . . . . Baden 1st Line Infantry Regiment (2 btns.) . . . . . . Baden 3rd Line Infantry Regiment (2 btns.) 2nd Brigade: GM Emil, Prinz von Hesse . . . . . . Hesse-Darmstadt Guard Fusiliers (1 btn.) . . . . . . Hesse-Darmstadt Leibgarde Regiment (2 btns.) . . . . . . Hesse-Darmstadt Leib Infantry Regiment (2 btns.) Divisional Artillery . . . . . . Baden Foot Battery (4 guns) . . . . . . Hesse-Darmstadt Foot Battery (3 guns) Reserve Artillery . . . . . . Foot Battery (8 x 12pdr cannons) . . . . . . Foot Battery (8 x 12pdr cannons) . . . . . . Foot Battery (6 guns) . . . . . . Neapolitan Foot Battery (? guns)

Non European Army buttons

WWII USA GI buttons

	WWII New Zealand Forces button	The states of Pennsylvania and New York had a "State Fencible" military unit. (Sort of a State Militia regiment). They date from the War of 1812 and onward into the 2Oth-century. For example, they served in the Spanish-American War. Your button is shown as PA45 in Alphaeus Albert's button-book ("Record of American Uniform and Historical Buttons, with Supplement")

USA Marine button 1941 - 1960	WWII USA GI button	WWII USA GI button	WWII USA GI cuff button

WWII USA GI button	WWII USA GI cuff button	Very likely to be a Royal African Regiment (needs confirming)	New York Militia probably of the 1812 era

United States Air Force	WWII USA Royal marines button	1865 USA civil war block I button

Prussian 1870-1914

Irish from 1799

'This is a Bavarian reservist, called up for service late in 1914. He is wearing the standard 1910 Fieldgrey wool uniform with Brandenburg cuffs, piped in red, and the Stehumfallkragen (stand and fall collar), a very uncomfortable back pack and leather jackboots, unchanged since 1870. The outside seam of his Fieldgrey trousers would also have been piped in red. The buttons on his tunic have the Bavarian rampant lion in place of the Prussian crown'


Prussian NCO Imperial Eagle WWI one piece button	Prussian NCO Imperial Eagle WWI one piece button	Prussian NCO Imperial Eagle WWI one piece button GEFREITENKNOPF

WW1 to II German 10th Company	WW1 to II German 7th Company	WW1 to II German 13th Company	Danish Army

Prussian NCO Imperial Eagle WWI one piece button	WW1 to II German 7th Company	WW1 to II German 4th Company	Neat button - Lion in shield - not researched it yet

German 29th Company ?	Irish regiment, Wicklow forresters - 1st July 1779 The Wicklow Militia was formed in 1793. The militia’s history can be read in Edward Benjamin Evans’ book, An Outline of the History of the County Wicklow Regiment of Militia…
Foreign Navy button finds French, German, USA etc

WWII German Navy Kreigsmarine Button	French Navy	USA Marines button Boston Elevated Bowe & Seligman as a backmark from 1880's to 1920	WWII German Navy Kreigsmarine Button

USA Marine button 1941 - 1960	French Navy - 1920's	'Further research on this button reveals this button appears to be relate the French 2nd Empire. My sample is of French Maritime Customs. Note the similarity'.

French Navy - 1870's	French Navy - 1920's	French Navy	WWII German Navy Kreigsmarine Button

?	German Navy pre 1918	WWII French Navy button Back mark , M &CE Paris

Napoleonic Navy button ?	Unknown military button with Arabic writing

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