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[picdigsVa]

Any information you can give on this button will be greatly appreciated. The back-mark is Lewis's Liverpool.
Thank you for your time.

 

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[Woodland Detectors]

It looks like an officers button.
Like these but, I haven't found your match just yet.

Church day gotta run

http://www.titanic-titanic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2917

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I agree with 4H, with the flag and logo it looks like a transportation button, probably a steamship line. I dont have time to search now but this is solvable.


http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...s's+Liverpool+button&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

 

[LUCKYMAN93]

It does look like an officers button but i think its a confederate flag behind the B but i dont know what the B stands for

 

[Unicorn]

I am not sure if I am right about this but here goes.......We have a Seaport City over here named Liverpool, we also have a store named Lewis's,(sells almost everything) Could this perhaps be a button bought from their? The letter B could also stand for Brittania. Before it was decommisioned just a few years ago it was also the name of The Royal Yacht.... Britannia....


U.

 

[vayank54]

I agree with 4H, with the flag and logo it looks like a transportation button, probably a steamship line. I dont have time to search now but this is solvable.



http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...s's+Liverpool+button&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Right . It's a button from a shipping line. Couldn't find anything on that maker but by the way the button is made I believe it dates from the mid-1900's

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I am not sure if I am right about this but here goes.......We have a Seaport City over here named Liverpool, we also have a store named Lewis's,(sells almost everything) Could this perhaps be a button bought from their? The letter B could also stand for Brittania. Before it was decommisioned just a few years ago it was also the name of The Royal Yacht.... Britannia....


U.

It does look like an officers button but i think its a confederate flag behind the B but i dont know what the B stands for

Lewis's Liverpool is the button manufacturer. I doubt its a Confederate flag. I think its the flag of a shipping line.

 

[diggummup]

There is/was a Lewis's in Liverpool, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis'sThe first Lewis's was opened in 1856 in Liverpool by entrepreneur David Lewis, as a men's and boys' clothing store, mostly manufacturing his own stock so it is quite possible the button was manufactured by this store. I know they are listed as a manufacturer of buttons for "White Star Lines" in a link previously given on this thread. So this much we know. Now to find the logo.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Sorry Unicorn, yes I guess its possible the same store manufactured buttons for various shipping lines.

I googled quite a few other shipping line buttons made by Lewis's including some on eBay at this time but I didnt think it would help to post because they werent a match. http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=40017&mode=threaded&pid=308788

 

[Red-Coat]

Just tidying up some blasts from the past (including some very ancient ones), largely for the benefit of anyone searching the site for information.

The button is from the Booth Steamship Company (as part of Alfred Booth and Company), founded in Liverpool in 1866. Their original house flag had a bee on it, changed to a small letter B by 1885 and then to a larger letter B after WWII… like this:

Initially it was a merchant shipping company importing English light leather into the USA and by 1877 was also operating regular services to Brazil, later trading in rubber after the development of pneumatic tyres. In the first part of the 1900s they diversified into the tourist market, running cruise tours to Lisbon and Madeira in Portugal and a South American cruise under the banner "1000 Miles Up The Amazon".

Alfred Booth & Co. sold the Booth Steamship Company to the Vestey group in 1946 ( who already had a shipping subsidiary as the Blue Star Line) and during the 1950s and 1960s they started trading in the Caribbean with a service between Brazil and Canada via the West Indies. They were fully absorbed into Blue Star in 1975.

Lewis’s of Liverpool was well-known as a producer of custom uniform buttons and made them for a number of shipping companies, including the famous White Star Line.