✅ SOLVED Can anyone read this button benchmark?

[RatherBeDigging]

I see A. _OODMEA_ & SON
and maybe a town on the bottom of
H____WHITE any ideas?


Front. Very fancy flat button

 

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[Mud Hut]

Part of it says HARD WHITE

 

[Kenosha Kid]

A. Goodyear & Son

 

[Mud Hut]

A. Goodyear & Son

 

[RatherBeDigging]

Great! Well I thought it was an M but clearly a Y.

 

[cw0909]

i think hard white is pewter, A.Goodyear buttons 1820s
Amasa Goodyear
pg 58
https://www.google.com/books/editio...ntsec=frontcover&bsq=a. goodyear & son button

 

[RatherBeDigging]

Apparently his son Charles patented a Vulcanized rubber formula and is the namesake for Goodyear tire. Charles died in 1860. Goodyear was founded 1898.