Early 1800s flat button with "standard" on it. Please help identify the maker.

[FreeBirdTim]

Early 1800's flat button with "standard" on it. Please help identify the maker.

Found a flat button today that looks to be from the early 1800's. Pretty rough shape with no shank and nothing on the front, but still a neat find. Tried to take a photo of the back, but it didn't show any detail. It's about the size and thickness of a penny.

Anyway, I'm trying to figure out the maker. The bottom of the stamping has "standard" in small block lettering. The rest of it is tough to read, but it's larger lettering and almost looks like calligraphy. Old English script, I guess you would call it.

I know it's long shot, but does anyone have any idea as to the maker and when it was manufactured?

 

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[vpnavy]

A nice (clear) photograph would help.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Having "Old English Script" lettering in your brass 1-piece flatbutton's backmark means it is British-made. Because the lettering is indented and it is British-made, it dates from approximately 1810 to the early-1830s. After that, American importation of British-made flatbuttons declined drastically, because the young US button-making industry had finally become capable of mass-producing them.

The link below takes you to a What-Is-It forum discussion of a flatbutton with a backmark very similar to yours, saying "BEST STRONG" in Old English Script lettering, with STAND'd in serifed block lettering (STAND'd was the abbreviation for Standard on such buttons).
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/today-s-finds/382632-another-button-banner-field.html

There are other variations of flatbutton backmarks in indented Old English Script lettering above serifed block-lettering "standard" (or stand'd). But most do not tell the manufacturer's name. All we know is that they are British-made.