Miltary button (need time period)

[sjv]

General Staff officers button, 24 stars, 4 arrows, 5 vertical lines, 22mm, 7 stars in chief . This is all I can gather since the back is too rusty but has full shank. I went to relicman.com and found one similiar but it had 5 stars in shield. :confused:

[Ill Digger]

It's kinda hard to tell without the back marks.
Here's a site with some info. http://pw1.netcom.com/~jimyce/bm.html#R
You can't make out any letters or symbols? That would help.

[del]

hey Sal are you sure its a rusty steel back and not a tin back button :huh:
heres a good link to military buttons look at the staff officers link on the left theres a few 7 star ones there and they give dates
http://www.thetreasuredepot.com/cayenna/index.html

3rd row down and 5th button over looks close

[Ill Digger]

3rd row down and 5th button over looks close
Yep ! That looks and sounds like it. This description souds identical to sjv's too!!
Cool ! 8)