Button/Cuffling ??????

[TnT2000]

I found this at our new site where I have found many civil war/post era buttons I have no idea what it is. The back is shaped like a cuffling but no moving parts the front reads

RANDOLPH'S

684

B'WAY

I think that is what it says..Any thoughts I would love to know...Thanks all...TnT

 

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[Charlie P. (NY)]

There is a city of Randolph and a Randolph County in Ohio. There is also a Randolph County in North Carolina (Community College of the same name in Asheboro). There is a Randolph, VT and a Randolph, NE. Also a Randolph County in Indiana. Randolph Company made fabric coverings for aircraft (Riverside, CA). A Randolph Golf Corse in the P.G.A.

There is a route 684 in New York, but that is too modern (post-Eisenhower)

In 1925, Asa Phillip Randolph organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. This was the first serious effort to form a labor union for the employees of the Pullman Company, which was a major employer of African-Americans. After years of bitter struggle, the Pullman Company finally began to negotiate with the Brotherhood in 1935, and agreed to a contract with them in 1937. The Brotherhood was associated with the American Federation of Labor.

And in 1975 Willie Randolph's On Base Percentage was .684

Man, I need a cigarette - and I haven't smoked in 30 years.

(and it's "cufflink, not "cuffling" )

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Isn't B'Way an abbreviation for Broadway?

 

[Montana Jim]

Isn't B'Way an abbreviation for Broadway?

Yes Gypsy...


So... Maybe a business address - or - production ad?