Help identifying age of Waterbury CT button

[Kathleen Anne]

I have 8 of these buttons market Waterbury Co. Conn. Does anyone know who this is a picture of? And approximately what year this may have been made? I have checked around online but cannot find this particular image on any of the buttons. Thank you for your help.

 

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[SkaBa]

Looks like George Washington.

 

[Erving]

I would say post 1965. Button Back Marks

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Erving (and anybody here who doesn't already know), the Jim Byce Backmarks webpage is notoriously inaccurate. I urge you not to trust it, nor recommend it. That particular backmark, which says CO'S (the abbreviation for the plural Companies), dates from 1943 to 2000. The Waterbury Button Company website's "Company History" says the Waterbury Button Company changed its name to Companies (plural) during World War Two, and changed it back to Company (singular) in 2000.

It's worth spending $25 to get the best book on button backmark dating, "American Military Button Makers And Dealers; Their Backmarks & Dates" by William F. McGuinn & Bruce S. Bazelon. It is available online from various civil war relic websites. Don't pay more than $30 for it. Also, be sure you're getting the newest edition, which has a butternut colored linen cover. (Older editions have a blue, red, or green cover.)

 

[Erving]

Erving (and anybody here who doesn't already know), the Jim Byce Backmarks webpage is notoriously inaccurate. I urge you not to trust it, nor recommend it. That particular backmark, which says CO'S (the abbreviation for the plural Companies), dates from 1943 to 2000. The Waterbury Button Company website's "Company History" says the Waterbury Button Company changed its name to Companies (plural) during World War Two, and changed it back to Company (singular) in 2000.

Its worth spending $25 to get the best book on button backmark dating, "American Military Button Makers And Dealers; Their Backmarks & Dates" by William F. McGuinn & Bruce S. Bazelon. It is available online from various civil war relic websites. Don't pay more than $30 for it. Also, be sure you're getting the newest edition which has a butternut colored linen cover. (Older editions have a blue, red, or green cover.)

I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.