🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Date range for button

[Nathan W]

Found awhile back at church site. Only thing I could find was it's Massachusetts institute of technology but no date period. I think it was a uniform button from a jacket. Does Albert's button guide have an online download or is it just a regular book?

 

[Red-Coat]

It’s an expensive out of print and hard-to-find book with no online equivalent, and the copyright won’t expire until 2061.

I don’t have a copy, but the operating period for John R. Farrell of Boston is reported elsewhere as 1853-1904.

 

[Spats]

It is Albert's #SU244C and the backmark probably dates from 1866 - 1904 according to McGuinn and Bazelon.

 

[UnderMiner]

Wow, that's a nice MIT button!

 

[TORRERO]

It’s an expensive out of print and hard-to-find book with no online equivalent, and the copyright won’t expire until 2061.

I don’t have a copy, but the operating period for John R. Farrell of Boston is reported elsewhere as 1853-1904.

I have a copy of that book and if you can read the back mark you can determine the dates of manufacture…

 

[Nathan W]

Thanks didn't know i was pulling stuff quite that old there. This church is in middle of a large city 45 minutes from me. The back woods of the property had an old home and some gold mines. I guess it's worth another visit before it's cleared for development

 

[Red-Coat]

M.I.T. was founded in 1861, so that narrows it down a bit within Farrell's operating dates.

 

[TORRERO]

Thanks didn't know i was pulling stuff quite that old there. This church is in middle of a large city 45 minutes from me. The back woods of the property had an old home and some gold mines. I guess it's worth another visit before it's cleared for development

Can you please read off the back mark AS IT IS WRITTEN, and I can try to see what the book says..