✅ SOLVED Need A Button ID

[Natman]

​Any info on this flat button would be appreciated. Found it in a yard where a very old house stands. Thanks in advance.

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Brass 1-piece buttons with their backmark written in raised lettering date from approximately 1790 into 1830s, when they rapidly fell out of public favor due to the advent of less-inexpensive (but equally decorative) hollow 2-piece brass buttons.

On such buttons, the term "gilt" meant gold-plated, and "plated" meant silver-plated. Your button was produced by the famous Sheffield Plate process. Your button was almost certainly made in Britain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_plate

 

[Natman]

Thanks for the info!