neat :3

Thanks, but wish I knew what it was. Been in my pin collection for... I'd say 6 or 7 years now.

hmm do you have a close up of the mark on the back perhaps?

It looks like an airforcebadge from the 20's seeing its design.
Still searching atm ^.~

Best I have right now.

I've searched several places with large collections of military pins and novilties, but nothing came close.

Thanks for the help, glade that people are helping ^^

what does it say on the back?

thinking it's an eagle design, might be german.

Pretty sure it's Sterling, but the "t" is rubbed out.

I wouldn't mind if it was a military badge, unless it was for something I'd rether not be seen wearing. Like if it was a KKK, or Nazi thing.

I highly doubt its Nazi, it doesn't look like anything I've ever seen anyway. (from them) Could be an eagle, possibly Air Force something if its even military at all.

It does look familiar though...

After long searches, it seems to most likey to be a novitie item sold some time ago. Like this little Avon Space ship my mate has, it not any particular ship, but is still nice looking. It too looks very familiar, but is nothing.

I've been looking at its Hallmark on the back, I've found some similar, but none that match it. The letters you see on it is the makers name.

I looked the name up, but all I could fine close, was a Diamond Trader company.

this might help, see if you can find a mark listed that looks like the one of the back of the piece. http://www.modernsilver.com/MYSTMARKS.html

the mark in the center of the word "sterling", likes to be either an A or an "up-side-down shield" with either a crown or a W inside of it... but I haven't seen any silver with a mark like that, nor does it seem to be in that list, sorry.

Seems like a W in a riceball.

This thing is probably some one's Shopclass foolings, and just got into a Thrift store, cause no one seems to keep anything.

Sterling could be a name, and the W is their other name, first, last, middle.

All just guesses

The thing in the middle is a W..

I don't think that says sterling.
The piece it self might actually be pewter.

It looks a bit like Australian air force pins... I suggest looking there.

rather, the SAS Parachute pins

I'll look into it, can't hurt, tried just about every military force, round the world at this point.

It seems Silver, or a metal rings are made of, cause in all the time I've held it, it hasn't worn like most pewter does. Though if it is Pewter, would be why the letters are little worn, like an old coin.

Who ever had it before me, wore it alot, cause it looks like a Nickle, or Quarter from 40s or 50s, its well worn, and dirty.

I think it might be a petroglyph. This isn't an exact match but look at Australian, Bottom row all the way to the right.

http://www.crystalinks.com/petrosymbols.gif

Hmm, now that opens a whole new search. Maybe it is like a Petroglyph, or Hyroglyph made into a pin. Like a sun cycle (always felt when you turn it around, looked like a sun rise or set)

I'll have to start hunting that stuff down, see if it could be something like that. Thanks.

Nice pin. Check the mark on the back. And the oxidation looks silver to me by scanner pic.

I have, and seem to narrow it down to the Arts and Craft era, cause I've found an item on Ebay with the same Hallmark, and it's from around then.

I wouldn't polish the front.
Also check to see if it is from some obscure movie. I may be a copy of a movie prop. Good luck n finding out. I thinks you got a treasure. If ye tires of it let me know. I think it looks wonderfull.

doubt I'll ever tire of it, had it for years, and as I told my mate, even if it proves worth tons of money, I'm not giving it up.

i can make out "S GRYY ING" but can't do better without a better pic.

scrub my las tnow that i stare at it it more is like "STER YY LING" so i thing it's made of sterling silver and that YY badge in the middle is the makers badge.

and ohh yea sterling silver does look like that silver in the exposed area's and in the corners black

I've found out what it is, more or less. It's of the era of Art and Craft, so it's something around the 1930s, and it's a W in a soft Triangle, int he middle of Sterling.

Some details are still a mystery

You should try bathing it in Brasso to see if you could give it a good shine. In a way, this pin looks like it's something from a Sci-Fi flick. Maybe you should try working from there. For a brief moment, I was thinking Dune when I saw this.

It dosen't look like the scan, the Scanner made it look really dirty.

The meaning is still unknown, but it's from around the 1930's, int he Arts and Craft era. Just still not sure what the design is of, if it is anything but a random marking.

I suggest that you take it to Historians that specializes in any of the 5 branches of Military. That would be a good start. Also, consider the fact that it might not be from the country you're in.

Pretty sure it isn't military, I've shown it to several people who hobby, and were in the military, and know several badges and such from all over, and it dosen't match any. It's most likely a random pin based on an old glyph, or symble that some one made into a pin.

1930s was the reign of the Art Moderne and Streamline Moderne styles - the former mostly angles and zig-zags, the latter based on smooth curves, though both variants had bits of each other. We lump these together today under the later-cointed term "art deco". This is definitely not military, and I would bet anything that it is simply an interesting-looking design, meant to accent clothing. Many brooches and pins were decorative with no symbolic meaning, and in the 30s lots of decoration included similar glyph-like symbology with no intended meaning beyond looking modern and futuristic (after King Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered, Egyptian themes flooded the style as well). The "Arts & Crafts" era ran from around 1900 to the mid- to late-1920s, and was characterized by an intentionally hand-made look - hammered metal, square nails, copper and iron - it was an attempt to go back to a pre-industrial-age ideal of handcrafted objects made with love and patience.

I would say, do keep researching it, but I'm fairly certain this is an Art Moderne emblem that's simply supposed to look 'cool', another term that first appeared in that era. At most, I would point this to a stylized version of the Egyptian wings design - the division in the center points to it not being a sun, and could be a bird's body, as it's also quite possible (with the way 1930s style drew elements from many that it touched) that it's a stylized southwest-native Thunderbird. If you wear a tie, as I do, I would suggest pinning this on the front of your tie knot.

Sounds pretty intresting, I'll have to look into some more of those designs sounds like my style.

This, I found out, is part of the "keeper of the torch" or "holder" (I forget), girl scout badge from around that era. It's coupled later by a higher rank that goes on the bottom making the whole a circle. I'd love to find the second part, but given the age, and the price old scout badges can be, I may not.

The new design of the badge is far less impressive and interesting, so this is most likely inspired by that movement in art you were talking about.

Thanks for the info, dose give me more insight to why it stands out so, as well as a nice bit of art history I may not have learned of other wise. ^^

try the game prey i think it looks like the native spirit guide eagle or a military pin from the 20s

I did find out it's origins. Wear it upside down though XP