Eagle Pin Recovery

[sckimbershot]

I found this little brass pin in a new area of a plantation site that I detect. The site had Confederate and Union troops actively involved on the property. Trying to date it and identify. Thanks for looking.

 

[Tanglewood]

It looks like a lady's broach or pin, depicting a swallow in flight. Timeless, still a popular motif today. Very nice.

 

[Sowbelly and Hardtack]

Looks more like a swallow.

 

[Sowbelly and Hardtack]

@Tanglewood did you find this pin in Georgia?

BIRDER’S EYE VIEW: A swarm of swallows make their mark

Several times in the last few weeks I have responded to a request for help identifying a “big swarm of birds.” They were swirling, swooping and diving over the sea oats on Tybee, above a lagoon on Sk…

www.savannahnow.com

"There are six species of swallow that regularly spend time in the Coastal Georgia – barn, northern rough-winged, bank, cliff, tree, and purple martins. Purple martins, barn swallows, and northern rough-winged swallows are abundant summer nesters. Bank swallows migrate through our area in spring and fall. Cliff swallows now nest here in a few scattered locations."

 

[UCVRelics]

I have to agree with @Tanglewood. Still a nice find.

 

[Tanglewood]

Tanglewood did you find this pin in Georgia?

No, I was just replying to the original post by sckimbershot.
But we are very used to seeing swallows under and around a bridge over the Chattahoochee River near our home just outside of Atlanta.

 

[sckimbershot]

Looks more like a swallow.

Yep, identified as a swallow. The pin was used as a love/mourning token as described by posters on other sites.

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