Treble Quality button backmark

[kccj76]

Hello all. I found this button in a southern suburb of Kansas City, MO. It is a non-descript flat front 3/4" in diameter with just 'Treble Quality' as the backmark. I have seen all of the other marks, but can not find reference to just Treble Quality. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! CJ

 

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[Bryanhashemi]

Treble gilt is probably British and your button is civilian from 1830's

 

[GpSnoopy]

This earlier post may help. Looking for help IDing a button My understanding is that these types of backmarks denoted quality, were produced by a variety of manufacturers, and can be dated anywhere between 1790's to mid/late 1800's

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Kccj76 wrote:
> I have seen all of the other marks, but can not find reference to just Treble Quality. Any help would be appreciated.

Kccj76, there seems to be nearly endless variations in the "Quality Rating" backmarks on that type of brass button. According to the various books on antique buttons, that quality-rating system was originally created in Britain in the very-early 1800s, and at first it was used with "seriousness." But that system quickly devolved into meaninglessness, as the button-manufacturers competed by using ever-more-superlative terms. (Such as fine, superfine, treble superfine, rich gilt, extra-rich gilt, etc.) So, the only thing your unusual variation of quality-rating backmark tells us is that your 1-piece brass flatbutton is most probably a British-made one, rather than US-made. Just in case you don't already know... dug-in-America brass 1-piece flatbuttons with "indented" (not "raised") lettering in the backmark date from approximately 1810 into the late-1830s.