✅ SOLVED Old button help,please.

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Seems to be a Benedict and Burnham button. The company was in Waterbury, Ct from the early 1830s to the early 1840s. So it kind of narrows it down for ya. Nice find.
 

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Ir is a one-piece solid cast brass "flower button" manufactured for use on civilian clothing (not military).

As Charlives indicated... the McGuinn-&-Bazelon book on button backmark dating says the "Benedict & Burnham" backmark on your button dates only from the company's founding in 1834 through 1843, when the company's name was changed to the Benedict & Burnham Mfg. Co.
 

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As Charlives indicated... the McGuinn-&-Bazelon book on button backmark dating says the "Benedict & Burnham" backmark on your button dates only from the company's founding in 1834 through 1843, when the company's name was changed to the Benedict & Burnham Manufacturing Company.
 

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