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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 4564981, member: 111&quot;]My memory is what it used to be, but I can&#039;t recall seeing a silver &#039;peasant&#039; button with a prong-back, and have to wonder if original - appears to be some &#039;repair&#039; work (is there another mark/initials at the solder?), and are the prongs perhaps a different color?&nbsp; Would think intended as decoration for perhaps a hat, sash, or something, the prongs wouldn&#039;t take to being bent often for removal and replacement on a garment...</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s probably early to mid 19th century German, or maybe Austrian, or Nordic, or thereabouts - and not wanting to be negative, but the &#039;stones&#039; are most likely Bohemian glass, the red and green were typical.&nbsp; Might be from Schleswig-Holstein, there were a few towns that used zig-zag edged triangular or shield shaped marks that look similar to the mark on the left (or at least, that&#039;s what I see with my old weak eyes) - an example for Kiel here:&nbsp; <a href="https://www.925-1000.com/Fgerman_marks_b1884_4.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.925-1000.com/Fgerman_marks_b1884_4.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.925-1000.com/Fgerman_marks_b1884_4.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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