🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Button Backmark date?

[fyrffytr1]

I found this plain front flat button recently and was wondering if my age of 1816-1830 is correct? According to McGuinn and Bazelon's book Lewis and Tomes were in business from 1816-1833 in England and 1819-1826 in New York. No buttons are believed to have been manufactured for the firm after 1830.

 

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[Red-Coat]

Good button.

Francis Tomes worked as a clerk for the English trader Edward Lewis in Birmingham before leaving to start his own trading business c1812, but Tomes’ business failed within a few years. Lewis re-employed him in 1815, specifically to set up a new company in New York City as a branch of Lewis’ company, importing British goods to the US and exporting cotton from the US to Britain. His wife and sons followed him to NY in 1816.

The company operated as “Lewis & Tomes” until 1833, when Lewis was bought out and the company renamed to “Tomes & Miller”. It then had a series of name changes until going out of business in 1883, at which time it was called “Francis Tomes & Company”.