ANTIQUE? GRAF & STIFT AUSTRIAN AUTOMOBILE METAL & ENAMEL TAB PIN M359

This tab pin (or perhaps a button hole insert?) has what looks like dried glue residue on reverse and the golden tab has a slight bend.

From the Revs Institute website:

Although the company would eventually produce luxury cars that were fit for a king, founding brothers Franz, Heinrich, and Karl Gräf started out repairing and then manufacturing bicycles during the 1890s. The ambitious brothers then turned to automobiles and developed a small de Dion–powered vehicle that could very well have been the first ever front-wheel-drive car. Only two of these early cars was produced and, quite amazingly, one has survived. The potential of the brothers was recognized by investor Wilhelm Stift and together they formed Gräf & Stift in 1904. Their first venture was producing Spitz cars under license, but when that company moved production to Hungary, Gräf & Stift started producing cars under their own name from 1904 onward.The newly established manufacturer targeted the very top of the market with advanced and luxurious cars that were particularly well liked by the Austrian aristocracy, including the Vienna court. Among the customers was Count Franz von Harrach, who owned a four-cylinder engined “Bois de Boulogne” model. Riding in this very car through Sarajevo with his wife and Harrach, Count Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, setting off a string of events that would lead to the outbreak of the Great War. Kaiser Karl of Austria also used a Gräf & Stift from 1914, which is now commonly referred to the as the “Kaiserwagen.” Just like the original Gräf prototype, both these historically significant cars still exist today.

From Wikipedia:

Gräf & Stift was an Austrian manufacturer of automobiles, trucks, buses and trolleybuses, from 1902 until 2001, latterly as a subsidiary of MAN. By the 1930s Gräf & Stift had begun making trucks and buses, and it ceased car manufacturing in 1938. 

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