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Lynn -- sounds like a South type 18 -- a flat cu alloy disc with a stamped backmark. I can't say I have seen "Imperial London" but there are numerous similar marks. Recent examples I have seen are
marked "Best Orange London" "Gilt" "Treble Gilt" and various makers names. These would not be iunexpected in a site dating to the period you described.
This is by no means an exhaustive list of handy references:
South, Stanley
1964 Analysis of the Buttons from Brunswick Town and Fort Fisher Florida Anthropologist XVII 2 113 133
see also:
Hinks, Stephen
1988 A Structural and Functional Analysis of Eighteenth Century Buttons MA Thesis, Anthropology, College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Va.
best of luck, Carl Steen
3/4/2002 1:47:11 PM, Lynn Evans <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>We found a plain brass (copper alloy) button at a c.1790-1840
>domestic/farm/mill site. The backmark is LONDON*IMPERIAL or
>IMPERIAL*LONDON. I have not found it in any of our (mostly military)
>sources. Is anyone familiar with this mark, or can you suggest good
>sources for non-military buttons? Thanks in advance. Lynn
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>Lynn L.M. Evans, Ph.D.
>Curator of Archaeology
>Mackinac State Historic Parks
>P.O. Box 873
>Mackinaw City, MI 49701
>231-436-4100
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Carl Steen
Archaeologist
The Diachronic Research Foundation
PO Box 50394
Columbia, SC 29250
Web Site: http://diachronicresearch.com
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