✅ SOLVED Button ID?

[CoilyGirl]

It's a pretty little button,very thin and has the words Birmingham and gilt on the back.

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

It is an "ornate" 1-piece brass flatbutton for use on fancy civilian clothing, manufactured in Birmingham England sometime between approximately 1800 and the 1830s. Imported from England to the US because at that time the young American button-making industry was unable to mass-produce enough buttons to satisfy the demand-level from the clothing industry.

 

[CoilyGirl]

Thanks Cannonball Guy!

 

[rock]

That was fast

 

[CoilyGirl]

He's a good one!

 

[GMD52]

He is one of the reasons we are all here! Great find! Keep up the good work

 

[CoilyGirl]

Well I wish I could say I found it but I didn't . It was in a box of relics that my husband bought to pick through and find items to group together to sell at antique stores in our area.

 

[rock]

Well I wish I could say I found it but I didn't . It was in a box of relics that my husband bought to pick through and find items to group together to sell at antique stores in our area.

I go to some of those antique stores in Tn in the cooler times of the yr. Im only 1 hour from Tn.

 

[CoilyGirl]

I go to some of those antique stores in Tn in the cooler times of the yr. Im only 1 hour from Tn.

We have some pretty decent stores around here.