🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Manufacturer of suspender buckle

[invent4hir]

All I found this brass suspender buckle near the old well where other artifacts date from about 1770-1855. At the top there appears to be a logo "NMCo". A similar looking buckle was sold on worthpoint attributing it to the Nashawannuck Manufacturing Company. Does anyone have a buckle book that can confirm the manufacturer? Also, that same buckle was entitled "NMC Civil War Suspender Buckle". Since the company had been in business since 1848, does the buckle book show that style manufactured before the C.W.?

 

[Red-Coat]

Note that Worthpoint is not seller. It's a repository for historic listings from ebay and other auction sites, regurgitating word-for-word what the original seller said without any fact-checking. Personally, I’m not convinced the seller has correctly identified the manufacturer.

None of the Nashawannuck Manufacturing Company’s literature or advertisements seem to have that stylised ‘NMCo’ monogram or refer to the company using those initials. The name always seems to appear in full as simple capital letters and accompanying imagery uses their trademark lion with a pennant having the letter ‘N’ and other depictions including the same pennant, like these:

Usually, if company has a monogram like that, they use it in advertising, and as branding for what they produce, like this ‘WB&C’ logo for the West, Bradley & Cary Manufacturing Company:

 

[invent4hir]

Note that Worthpoint is not seller. It's a repository for historic listings from ebay and other auction sites, regurgitating word-for-word what the original seller said without any fact-checking. Personally, I’m not convinced the seller has correctly identified the manufacturer.

None of the Nashawannuck Manufacturing Company’s literature or advertisements seem to have that stylised ‘NMCo’ monogram or refer to the company using those initials. The name always seems to appear in full as simple capital letters and accompanying imagery uses their trademark lion with a pennant having the letter ‘N’ and other depictions including the same pennant, like these:

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Usually, if company has a monogram like that, they use it in advertising, and as branding for what they produce, like this ‘WB&C’ logo for the West, Bradley & Cary Manufacturing Company:

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Red-Coat, thanks for correcting me re: worthpoint and you make an excellent point about the lack of fact-checking (which I'm guilty of also). If the ‘NMCo’ monogram isn't related to the Nashawannuck Manufacturing Company - guess I'm starting over. However, it may be an earlier monogram, as I think the logos in the top 2 pictures are from the 1870s-1880s. Will re-attack tomorrow...

 

[invent4hir]

Additional research shows one type of buckle patented in 1855 with "Nashawannuck Manufacturing Co" (first 2 pics). Then I see a post with a buckle similar to mine on Instagram proclaiming it to be manufactured by the Nashawannuck Manufacturing Company (3rd pic). Their ID however appears to be based on the buckle on worthpoint. Interestingly enough, that logo although having the initials NMCo, does differ somewhat from the buckle I found (4th pic).

I'm waiting for a call back from the Easthampton Historical Society. Hopefully they have some catalogs with pictures of buckles manufactured by the Nashawannuck Manufacturing Company.