Best orange colour button

[cmthunder]

Best Orange Colour Button
Found this button long ago it was totally black and just recently cleaned with Naval jelly. Found near old barn. I believe it is British button due to spelling of Colour. Has 2 little cloud or flowers with dot inside. Has anyone seen this before?Click image for larger versiName

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Cmthunder wrote:
> Best Orange Colour Button

> Found near old barn. I believe it is British button due to spelling of Colour.

Your belief is correct. Actually, whether they have a backmark or not, the majority of brass 1-piece flatbuutons dug in the US were manufactured in Britain... because the infant US button-making industry was not capable of mass-producing them until the 1820s, just 10 years before 1-piece flatbuttons died out.

As you probably already know, the word Orange in the backmark refers to the color of this button's goldplating.

> Has 2 little cloud or flowers with dot inside. Has anyone seen this before?

Yes, I've seen this "stretched" flower-bloom before in brass flatbutton backmarks.​

 

[cmthunder]

Thank you for the info ThecannonballGuy

 

[A2coins]

Great ID CBG