Help identify button

[beetleruss]

I recently found this button at an old farm. It has Kendrick &co on the back and is gold gilt with a rope on the border. It about the size of a quarter.

 

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[tamrock]

You may what to post this in the "what is it" forum. Good shots of a button I'll add. Looks like it once had a shield or something in the center.

 

[beetleruss]

Thanks

 

[BARKER]

Hi; It is an 1800's Two Piece Button. The center would have had some type of Intaglio or glass piece in it like a Wax seal. I don't think it was wax though ok. Nice find. PEACE:RONB

 

[fyrffytr1]

Kendrick & Co. started business in the early 1830s and was probably the same firm as "Ives, Kendrick & Co. In 1847 it became the "Waterville Mfg. Co. So your button dates from the 1830s to 1847 I would date it to the 1840s when two piece buttons came into production.

 

[beetleruss]

That's what I have found too but there appears to be a design on the face that is hard to see without magnification

 

[fyrffytr1]

Is there anything besides Kendrick & Co. on the back?

 

[beetleruss]

Looks like extra fine