✅ SOLVED Old London Treble gilt button.

[chr1smay]

Can anyone give me some history about London Treble Gilt buttons? We found one in the yard about 8 " deep and I was wondering if it was a military button. Its a flat button and the other side cannot be made out.

 

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[HutSiteDigger]

More info on what the button looks like and pictures would def help us 100% ID it.

 

[nhbenz]

Short of seeing something on the front I'd say it's a civilian button, 1820's-30's.

 

[HutSiteDigger]

okay my friend if you could just do one more photo of the front

 

[HutSiteDigger]

Nhbenz is right... Civilian flat button dating too the time period he mentioned!

 

[chr1smay]

Thanks for the info!

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Nhbenz is correct... if your button has no emblem or design on its front it appears to be what we relic diggers and button collectors call a 1-piece brass "flatbutton." When one of that kind has an indented-lettering backmark, and was dug in the USA, it means 1810s-through-1830s.

Additional info:
Plain-front 1-piece brass flatbuttons were manufactured for use on civilian clothing, though a few did get used on Militia uniforms. The backmark saying Treble Gilt means triple goldplating in modern lingo. That backmark is one of the typical "quality-ratings" found on British-made brass buttons of that time period. Millions of them were imported into the US because at that time the American button-making industry was not yet able to mass-produce them to meet the huge demand from the clothing industry. The War-of-1812 (through 1815) was followed by a decade of patriotic American dislike of buying British-made products -- which means your button most probably arrived in the US sometime in the 1820s or early-1830s.

Edit: Hutsitedigger and I were typing our replies at almost the same time. Mine took longer to finish because I tend to give longer answers than he does. ;-)