Button I.D.s

[b270h]

Button I.D.'s

Any help ? I can't find anything on either one . Apparently Robert T Pott or Potts ? isn't a button maker , could that have been the owners name ? That would be quite the monogram ! And the other one has a mighty fancy back to not have a makers name on it , plus look at how "Color" is spelled ( Col R )

Thanks' for any help !

 

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[duggap]

As to the first button, I found a Thomas Potts, also shown as T. Potts. He was an English merchant, which would mean he was a reseller, not maker. Not at all uncommon. (Provided, of course, that this is the same Potts.) He was in business from 1805 to 1835 in England, and listed as the exporter of buttons, not the maker. The second button, as you know, has a backmark that is suppose to address quality, not maker. It would have dated from 1790 to about 1830. It most likely was also British, with that spelling of color. Hope you hit that site hard.

 

[b270h]

Thank you, Duggap
Yes I am hitting hard and so throughly that it'll take years to recover half of what's there.

 

[CoilyGirl]

That's a real oldie,congrats!

 

[Dakota Sioux]

Robert T Potts was a large dry-goods seller in Philadelphia starting in about 1810 with Isaac Lawrence. Did you see that one?