gold gilted button

[eboy1960]

hello found this at a spot that gives me alot of goodies any ideas about this button..thanks

 

[Batch]

Hello!

Cool button from the Pennsylvania Railroad. Can't give you an exact time period other than prior to 1968 but I am sure of the PRR ID. (Go to wiki and enter "Pennsylvania Railroad")

Happy Hunting!

Batch

 

[vpnavy]

Nice find eboy. Not exactly the same one but very close - take a look at EBay: VINTAGE rare mint Pennsylvania Railroad Gold PRR Button 7/8" Waterbury Button Co.

 

[fyrffytr1]

Can you tell what the backmark reads? I can't make it out.

 

[eboy1960]

looks like it reads america rv supply ny

 

[HutSiteDigger]

Here is a Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad I dug the other month near the railroads. The button back-mark is "American Supply Co." I believe these buttons too date from 1890-1930s. I need too do more research on the American Supply Company.

 

[creskol]

looks like it reads america rv supply ny

It reads American Ry Supply Co. NY and dates to 1927

 

[eboy1960]

found ih at the site and police buttons late 1800s also,,

 

[creskol]

found ih at the site and police buttons late 1800s also,,

It still is listed as a 1927 button .. no earlier than that.

 

[eboy1960]

sounds like the date of that button thanks

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Not meaning to be argumentative, but the McGuinn-&-Bazelon book on dating backmarks says the American Ry Supply Co. NY backmark dates "from 1889 to at least 1892." Where did the 1927 date info come from?

 

[creskol]

Not meaning to be argumentative, but the McGuinn-&-Bazelon book on dating backmarks says the American Ry Supply Co. NY backmark dates "from 1889 to at least 1892." Where did the 1927 date info come from?

From Transportation Uniform Buttons, Volume I, RAILROAD , by Van Court

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Thanks for the info-source about 1927. We button collectors know (with certainty) that button manufacturers sometimes used "leftover" old button-backs to complete an order for newer buttons. Perhaps that is the answer to the apparent contradiction between what the backmark-book says about the American Railway Supply Co NY backmark and what the Railroad book says about Eboy1960s Pennsylania Rail Road button.