Help Needed With Button Maker ID

[ClutchCargo69]

Hello. I'm hoping to get a id on the maker of this button. It is plain on the front. I'm posting a picture of the back. It says A. Benedict Extra Rich. Anyone know the Approx. age? Any value? Thanks!

 

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[PBK]

A. Benedict, c. 1823-29, Waterbury, CT.

 

[ClutchCargo69]

Thank you! I found it at a Club Hunt this weekend in East Hartford, CT.

 

[PBK]

Glad I could help.

A. Benedict — for Aaron Benedict— was used as the name of a firm founded in 1823 that included several partners. (Aaron Benedict had already made buttons prior to that time, but they were not so marked.) In 1829, the firm was reorganized and the name was changed to Benedict & Coe. As a result, the mark on the button you posted can be dated fairly precisely.