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[Truth]

Hey guy I asking if anyone of you are a member of Worthpoint I have a button and the only thing that I found one inot in great condition but Ican’t see what it sold for?

 

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[billb]

Hey guy I asking if anyone of you are a member of Worthpoint I have a button and the only thing that I found one inot in great condition but Ican’t see what it sold for?

Nice recovery Truth. ..good luck in your search

 

[Red-Coat]

I can’t tell you what that button sold for but they’re rare… although the value (collector desirability) is lessened by the fact that they aren’t military.

Nathan C. Folger of Hudson, NY established a retail clothing business in New Orleans in 1830, soon opening his own store, but the business failed in 1837 and he went back to New York. By 1849, he had returned to New Orleans and went into partnership with Thomas N. Blake as “Folger & Blake”. Soon after that, “Blake” had disappeared from the company name, with Folger becoming sole proprietor until his son joined him in 1855. It’s not known how long he continued to use “Folger & Blake” as a trading name after the departure of Blake, but in any case the business folded in 1862.

Although they did supply some Confederate uniform clothing in their final years of operation, ‘star’ buttons with the Folger & Blake name on the front were used on regular clothing for branding purposes and/or perhaps on employee clothing as ‘livery’.

 

[Mackaydon]

According to Rulau, page 291 (United States Tokens 1700-1900), the wording 'Folger and Blake' only appeared during the years 1849-1851.
Don.......

 

[Red-Coat]

According to Rulau, page 291 (United States Tokens 1700-1900), the wording 'Folger and Blake' only appeared during the years 1849-1851.
Don.......

That's the case for their store tokens Don, but doesn’t necessarily correspond to the branding on the clothing they supplied.

Here’s an ad from the Times-Picayune newspaper of 22nd October 1844 with the company name as “Folger & Blake“:

The ad is believed to predate branded buttons with that name, for which there isn’t evidence prior to c1849 as far as I know. The branding as “Folger & Blake” seems to have been used for clothing until at least until 1854 and perhaps for an unknown period beyond that, but it could be the case that stocks of old buttons were being used up.

 

[Truth]

I can’t tell you what that button sold for but they’re rare… although the value (collector desirability) is lessened by the fact that they aren’t military.

Nathan C. Folger of Hudson, NY established a retail clothing business in New Orleans in 1930, soon opening his own store, but the business failed in 1837 and he went back to New York. By 1849, he had returned to New Orleans and went into partnership with Thomas N. Blake as “Folger & Blake”. Soon after that, “Blake” had disappeared from the company name, with Folger becoming sole proprietor until his son joined him in 1855. It’s not known how long he continued to use “Folger & Blake” as a trading name after the departure of Blake, but in any case the business folded in 1862.

Although they did supply some Confederate uniform clothing in their final years of operation, ‘star’ buttons with the Folger & Blake name on the front were used on regular clothing for branding purposes and/or perhaps on employee clothing as ‘livery’.

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I can’t tell you what that button sold for but they’re rare… although the value (collector desirability) is lessened by the fact that they aren’t military.

Nathan C. Folger of Hudson, NY established a retail clothing business in New Orleans in 1930, soon opening his own store, but the business failed in 1837 and he went back to New York. By 1849, he had returned to New Orleans and went into partnership with Thomas N. Blake as “Folger & Blake”. Soon after that, “Blake” had disappeared from the company name, with Folger becoming sole proprietor until his son joined him in 1855. It’s not known how long he continued to use “Folger & Blake” as a trading name after the departure of Blake, but in any case the business folded in 1862.

Although they did supply some Confederate uniform clothing in their final years of operation, ‘star’ buttons with the Folger & Blake name on the front were used on regular clothing for branding purposes and/or perhaps on employee clothing as ‘livery’.

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[Truth]

According to Rulau, page 291 (United States Tokens 1700-1900), the wording 'Folger and Blake' only appeared during the years 1849-1851.
Don.......

Thank you for taking your time to research my button

 

[Truth]

I found it at a old Louisiana Spanish home. It was a small home from late 18th century and they built this house over it in early 1800. Then they built that white shotgun house mid 19th century. If you look closely to the white building it was only being held up by that tree, so I asked when they torn it down if I could detect there and then he called and said it ready and that’s where I found the button.