Fraternal jacket?

[eel]

Picked up this older jacket but don't recognize the symbols on all the buttons. I have seen old fraternal jackets and this one is similar. It has that striped lining in the sleeves you often find in antique pieces, as well as metal decorative threads.

Close up of the buttons

This pic looks washed out but the jacket is dark black. Shows velvet and button details

 

[Pinkcoke]

Quick google search gave up this wikipedia info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_and_pick

The hammer and pick is a symbol representing the industrialised working classes, similar to the more famous hammer and sickle. It was used in the flag of the Marxist People's Republic of Congo between 1970 and 1991.

It can also indicate mining, mines (especially on maps), or miners, and is also borne as a charge in the coats of arms of mining towns. There the symbol represents the traditional tools of the miner, a hammer and a chisel on a handle, similar to a pickaxe, but with one blunt end. They are pictured in the way a right-handed worker would lay them down: the pick with the point to the right and the handle to the lower left, the hammer with the handle to the lower right and the head to the upper left. The handle of the pick protrudes over the head, because the head is not permanently fixed, but can be swapped for a newly sharpened head when it is blunt from use. In coats of arms the symbol is often shown in black (Johanngeorgenstadt, Hövels), but also in natural colours (Telnice) or in gold and/or silver (Abertamy, Bodenwöhr, Gelsenkirchen).

You might try and find out if there was such a mining town near where this jacket originated from.