button ID and a thing

[rustydigger]

Need help on the button only words I can make out are "rice" "orange" "j" "manna"


Also have this ceramic thing with 2 small copper plates one on each side. It has a round handle that I am holding on to in the picture. Looks like some breaker type thing.

 

[grasshopper]

I think the button says "rich orange gilt". can't quite make out the name of the maker though...j. something...

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Your button is a 1-piece brass "flat button" from approximately 1800 to the early 1840s. The backmark appears to be "J. Mann's / Rich Orange" (with 4-petal flowers between the maker's name and the quality-rating). "Rich Orange" means your brass button was plated with orange-gold gilt. J. Mann means Joseph Mann, a British button-maker in Birmingham England who was in business from 1800 to 1843.

 

[rustydigger]

Sweet! Thanks guys. The ceramic thing is a part of a cut out switch I found out.

 

[Minrelica]

The ceramic thing looks like bakelite

 

[Retired Sarge]

Could the name be J. Mann's?

Added:

Step away from the computer for a minute while posting and everyone beats me to it.

Mike
USAF Retired

 

[rustydigger]

The ceramic thing looks like bakelite

I assure you its ceramic

 

[digging wv]

I guess a common equivilent for the ceramic thing woucd be the disconnect to a heatpump, electric furnace, etc.