✅ SOLVED Id like more info on these two buttons.

[WHADIFIND]

I'd like more info on these two buttons.

I'm pretty sure they're from the McDonough School but they appear to be in almost too good condition to be coming from the ground. I only used a little soap/water/soft brush to clean.

Anyone familiar with these?

Thanks!

HH!

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

The reason that the fronts of your buttons are still shiny after many decades in the ground is that the fronts are gold-palted. The brass backs are not plated, so the brass tarnished.

Your button showing a 4-string Lyre is a musician's or bandsman's button. Going from what you said, it is most probably from a McDonough School's band. The backmark "Waterbury Button Companies Inc." dates from mid-World-War-2 to the present day.

The button backmark dating book says your McD button's backmark "Sisco Bros. Baltimore" dates from sometime after the end of the civil war to 1921 or a bit later.

 

[WHADIFIND]

The reason that the fronts of your buttons are still shiny after many decades in the ground is that the fronts are gold-palted. The brass backs are not plated, so the brass tarnished.

Your button showing a 4-string Lyre is a musician's or bandsman's button. Going from what you said, it is most probably from a McDonough School's band. The backmark "Waterbury Button Companies Inc." dates from mid-World-War-2 to the present day.

The button backmark dating book says your McD button's backmark "Sisco Bros. Baltimore" dates from sometime after the end of the civil war to 1921 or a bit later.

Thanks for the extra information. Pretty much sums up what I thought.

HH!