✅ SOLVED ID of One Piece Cuff Button : Can you read this?

[ToastedWheatie]

Searching through here, I find that the button says, Rich Orange". I also find from posts by the irreplaceable CannonballGuy that with the raised lettering it likely dates 1810-30s.
But what are the words other than "rich orange"? There's enough letters to make it out, but I can't figure it out. I'm usually pretty good.
What does it say?

 

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[ToastedWheatie]

"Colour"

I walked away from the computer, come back and look at the screen, "POOF", there it is clear as day.

Marking it solved....lol

 

[Older The Better]

I saw rich colour but I couldn’t make out the last word...
Woops never mind you edited the post with the info I was missing

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

ToastedWheatie, thank you for the high praise, which I try hard to be worthy of.

A smal;l correction... I siad INDENTED lettering in a 1-piece flatbutton's backmark dates it from about 1810 into the 1830s. Raised lettering backmarks started about 20 years earlier, and continued to be used at the same time as indented lettering on flatbutton backs.

The other word in your flatbutton's backmark which you're having trouble deciphering is "Colour" -- the British spelling of color. That means your find was made in Britain and imported to the US sometime in the 1820s, because the War Of 1812 made Americans angry enough to boycott British-made products for 5-to-10 years after the war ended. I said your British-made brass flatbutton is from "sometime in the 1820s" because by the end of that decade American button-manufacturers had finally become capable of mass-producing enough quantity that imports were no longer necessary.

After-posting edit:
I see that you deciphered the word while I was typing my reply. Good work. Keep at it. When you've examined enough backmarks, you'll get to where you can interpret a partially-obscured word by recognizing just 2 or 3 letters in the word when those letters are in a particular "position" in the word.