Can anyone identify this lapel pin?

Can anyone identify this pin? Haven't been able to find a duplicate online, but it is clearly some fraternal pin of some sort. No identifying marks on the back to help, either. Would appreciate any help.

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Can anyone identify this lapel pin?

It may be fraternal but with the Anvil,  gear and want looks like a compass from a geometry set .  I am thinking more in the lines of some type of Union maybe or some type of Manufacturer - industrial type.

I have had some of pins that are next to impossible to determine who they are

 

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Can anyone identify this lapel pin?

 

Those things are tongs.  It's a blacksmith pin, with the anvil, gears, hammer & tongs.  I'm thinking it could be "wmsf", reading down instead of acrooss because that would give you  "w... metal smith forge"  but that's just a wild guess.  

A person would have to look into it a bit, it's not a common one.  

 

 

 

                          metal smith pin.jpg

 

 

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