eagle button backmark info

[slimpicnz]

I found an eagle button this week and needs some help with the back
mark. The back mark reads "Waterbury Manufacturing Co. ". I have not
been able to find anything about this exact back mark.
Can anyone help with dating this button by the back mark?

 

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[brnn53]

Thats a nice button! Very nice gilt to it. It is a general service CW Yankee button. Excellent find!
Mike

 

[Montana Jim]

Hello, and welcome to treasure net!

Here are some back marks for the Waterbury buttons... your mark not listed!!!
I'm also having some time trying to find it! It looks like an era button but I wonder if it's a modern copy...??

SCOVILL Mg. Co. / WATURBURY CT. 1850-1865
SCOVILL Mf''g Co. WATURBURY CT. 1850-1865
SCOVILL Mf''g Co. WATURBURY 1850-1865
SCOVILL Mfg Co. WATURBURY CT. 1850-1865

AARON BENEDICT 1812-1823
A. BENEDICT & CO. 1823-1829
BENEDICT & COE 1829-1834
BENEDICT & BURNHAM 1834-1843
BENEDICT & BURNHAM MFG CO. 1843-1849
WATERBURY BUTTON CO. 1849-1965
WATERBURY CO.S Post 1965

See this site for additional backmark information to help you with your future finds!

http://pw1.netcom.com/~jimyce/bm.html#T

 

[slimpicnz]

Thanks for the welcome. I have been reading this forum for a while and
it amazes me at the knowledge that is here.

The back mark on this button has my curiosity peaked. I am thinking it
is post civil war also, but the site that I dug it was a union winter camp.
We have recovered several nice period buttons and bullets from this site, but I think there was also a home place near by after the war.

 

[PBK]

Glad to have you with us, Slimpicnz!

According to McGuinn & Bazelon's book on backmarks, the Waterbury Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, CT was not the same firm as the Waterbury Button Company, and was founded in 1837 and incorporated in 1876.

Your button, listed in Albert's book as #GI 98 A5, is a postwar variety.

 

[slimpicnz]

That is what I suspected. I found an 1870's harmonica in the area also.
Thanks for the help.