✅ SOLVED Need help with button ID

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I can't find anything on it, if anyone has any info id appreciate it, it's from the same site as my 2bit piece, I think it reads (•treele•plate•. •SIAND• COL: ) Thanks for the help
 

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It is a "Fashion" button made for use on fancy civilian clothing. Yours has a thin sheet of copper (bearing the design) crimped over a typical 1-piece brass flatbutton's body -- a version of button-construction which dates it to the 1810s through 1830s. The backmark saying "Treble Plate / Stand[ard] Col[our]" is a typical British backmark from that time-period. The use on the word "Plated" in the backmark means your button's sheetcopper front was silverplated. The word "Gilt" means goldplated.
 

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As I said on your other post, British button, early 1800s. Civilian. Treble plate means "Highly Plated" not "triple plated" as some would assume.

Solved.

Regards,

Buck
 

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