tombac button backmark ID help

[BobinSouthVA]

Just trying to nail this one down.

It looks like

DOUGHTY and then after a bit T?ON

NEW YORK

thanks for looking and HH

 

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[creskol]

Is it a tombac or a two piece brass?

 

[BobinSouthVA]

Is it a tombac or a two piece brass?

I'm pretty sure its a one piece tombac. there is a line with some gilt below the YORK but I think it's just the design and not separation.

 

[Breezie]

What does the face look like? The DOUGHTY buttons I found were made in London. http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/pages/button-makers.html

Nice find, Breezie

 

[BobinSouthVA]

What does the face look like? The DOUGHTY buttons I found were made in London. http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/pages/button-makers.html

Nice find, Breezie

Thanks Breezie

The front is just plain flat with some patina.

 

[CRUSADER]

Not tombac its copper-alloy which was once Gilt.

 

[Bramblefind]

Doughty, Dibblee & Co. were dry goods merchants at 90 Pearl in New York City in the 1840s.