Button Id

[Mighty Mouse]

Hello Folks, my first time to the Forum. Hoping someone can identify these buttons, approx. age, rarity etc..

Gold Button with Large M - Manufactured bu Albert C. Wilson
Silver Button with Large M - Manufactured by Joe Harris SanFrancisco
Possible Public Health Button = Manufactured by Pettibone

The other 3 do not have makers. Curious as to type and age.

Thank You....Mighty Mouse

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Your first two buttons are what button-makers call (civilian) "Career Uniform" buttons... for the uniforms of hotel staff, cruise ships, railroads, etc. You might find your "M" buttons in the Career Uniforms section at the Waterbury Button Company's sales-website.

Your third button is indeed a United States Public Health Service button... shown in the Albert button-book''s Federal Departments section as button FD-74.

The fourth button is a Musician's uniform button, from sometime in the 20th-Century. My high school band uniform buttons had the same emblem.

Fifth and sixth buttons are very-early-1900s European army regimental buttons.

You asked about their age. All of the backmarks are written in 20th-Century "plain block" (non-serifed) lettering. Could be as early as the 1880s but most likely first half of the 20th-Century, because after that time backmarks almost entirely disappeared from buttons.

You asked about dollar-value. Only your Military buttons are of interest to collectors. You'd need to ID the country they are from, and their exact time-period, to determine their collector's-market value.