f.d button

[dfx willy]

can anyone give me some info on this button? its says (boston&chic-f.m. batchelderco. thanx willy

[910digger]

FD stands for fire department. Dates probly between 1850-1870. Nice find! my buddy has one that says FD, NY

[dfx willy]

thanx bud!!! i new it was fire department but have you ever heard of that backmark? willy

[PBK]

Have you ever heard of that backmark?

Fred M. Batchelder & Co. was a clothing & uniforms wholesaler, active at least as early as the 1880's, and as late as the 1940's. Batchelder was also listed as a hatter in the 1880's. Records for 1875-1935 indicate that the Waterbury Button Co. made buttons (including military varieties) backmarked for Fred M. Bachelder. So, this is likely a Waterbury stock-pattern button supplied to Bachelder for use on fire department uniforms. Note the similarity to this Waterbury die variety, with the same punctuation (period after F , but not after D ):

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