Old ABS/Eagle button

[diggindowndeep]

Hello- I found this old brass button with ABS circled around an Eagle while detecting in my backyard and I'm trying to get a positive ID on it. I have already done quite a bit of research on the Internet and I have found only two other buttons that are like it. I have read where it's possibly from an American Boy Scouts uniform from 1910-1920 (not affiliated w/ Boy Scouts Of America) or from an American Bible Society uniform during the Civil War era. I tend to believe that it's an American Boy Scouts button, because it just makes more sense. Besides I found an old 1920 dog tax tag from around the same time frame just 15 feet away from where I found this button. Either way, it was another neat find that I felt was kinda rare. Any help with this will be much appreciated.

HH!

-John

 

[Ma Betty in MO]

n/t

 

[407floyd]

The eagle design mimics the Great Seal of the USA created in 1902, so the American Boy Scouts looks promising.