Button Quality Mark age needed

[Woodland Detectors]

I dug this really nice looking sportsman's button in NC recently, and after doing some research on the quality mark, I couldn't locate the manufacture or age. The Mark reads:
"P&CO. Superior Rich Colour" Or "P Co. Superior Rich Colour" The "S" on superior is back wards.

Thanks

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

1- The use of a RMDC (Raised-Marking-in-a-Depressed-Channel) backmark on a two-piece button dates the button to sometime from the 1830s to 1860s.

2- The spelling of words in the quality-rating on the backmark can indicate the country-of-manufacture. Examples are:
color = American
colour = British
superfin = French
So, in view of the word spelled "colour" in your button's backmark, it is British-made.

3- A careful search through the McGuinn-&-Bazelon book on button backmarks for the list on company-names which begin with a P turns up only one British company that was in business in the 1830s-to-1860s time period. It is Piggott & Co, of Birmingham England.

Summary:
In my opinion, your 2-piece Sportsman button was made in England, sometime between the 1830s and 1860s, by Piggott & Co.

 

[Mac232]

Great info CBG

 

[Woodland Detectors]

That is great info CBG. That's a good age for the site I am searching. I was hoping sometime CW period. Must me more there.
Thank you!

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Cool looking boar button. Nice RMDC and good ID. Im sure I have seen that livery like hunting image before. Heres a good online source for UK button backmarks http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/pages/buttonsntoz.html#anchorn

Check here to look at older hunting buttons http://www.colchestertreasurehunting.co.uk/B/buttons.htm

 

[IronSpike]

Nice button and ID

http://www.buttoncountry.com/back_mark_types.htm