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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 40687, member: 44&quot;]What is the printing on the front of the button? Does it say Ordinance Corps USA or just Ordinance Corps? This button of cross cannons was instituted as the Ordinance Corps button in 1851. At that time only Ordinance Corps was on it. In 1951 USA was added.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In 1851 came wide uniform changes. The shell and flame was removed from the uniform of all other elements of the Army and thus became the distinctive insignia of the Ordnance Corps. A new ordnance button was also authorized about the same time - of gilt, convex in shape and with a plain border, having the crossed cannon and bombshell and a circular scroll, over and across the cannon, containing the words &#039;Ordnance Corps.&#039; &quot;</p><p>3rd paragraph up from the bottom:</p><p><a href="http://www.patriotfiles.com/index.php?name=Sections&amp;req=viewarticle&amp;artid=8682&amp;page=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.patriotfiles.com/index.php?name=Sections&amp;req=viewarticle&amp;artid=8682&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.patriotfiles.com/index.php?name=Sections&amp;req=viewarticle&amp;artid=8682&amp;page=1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In 1950, the wording was changed to read &#039;Ordnance Corps U.S.A.&#039;. With the reestablishment of the Ordnance Corps on 28 October 1985, it was an obvious insignia to choose as the regimental crest.&quot;</p><p><a href="http://www.goordnance.army.mil/history/crest.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.goordnance.army.mil/history/crest.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.goordnance.army.mil/history/crest.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If the maker is Wm. R. Williams and not a reproduction, then probably dates 1841-1846 per the following query on a Militaria forum:</p><p><a href="http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/231809-ordnance-button/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/231809-ordnance-button/" rel="nofollow">http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/231809-ordnance-button/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>These dates don&#039;t jive with the 1851 date above when uniform changes were made. I suspect the dates were more like circa??</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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