✅ SOLVED Information about a button maker/backmark

[creskol]

Does anybody know the history of button backmark W.B.C. London? I know they made livery buttons, but they also made U.S. Marine buttons, which I find rather curious.

 

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[fyrffytr1]

I have looked through all my references and can't find anything on that backmark. We may need to call in the big guns on this one.

 

[nhbenz]

I think that may be Waterbury Button Co.? (Did they have a factory in London?)

 

[FreeBirdTim]

I came up with "Wise, Bielby & Co", but not sure if that's the one. They manufactured buttons in the 1820's.

 

[creskol]

Thanks for the replies..

 

[G.A.P.metal]

I found this in Tice`s book Uniform Buttons of the United States 1776-1865.
Just one sentence... 5th.from bottom ... it is a Waterbury button post Civil War.

 

[creskol]

I found this in Tice`s book Uniform Buttons of the United States 1776-1865.
Just one sentence... 5th.from bottom ... it is a Waterbury button post Civil War.

Excellent! Thank you!