Sorry Nancy, can't help ya any with your button...but since the topic is
buttons...and I've not been able to find a scrap of info online...does
anyone here know about a 1/2 dia., 4-hole metal buttons...with the
marking  * M. ROCK * / NEW YORK   around the periphery??  It's probably
from overalls or trousers. ??

Also have a flat, 4-hole button (unwashed so far; was just looking thru
the bags of stuff coming in to the Lab; so don't know the material)
marked
 * DEPOSE * / PARIS
All I could sleuthe out online is that apparently 'depose' means "made
in"...
(I don't speak/read French).

Thanks for any help.

Carol Serr
Mooney * Jones & Stokes
CRM Lab Director
9903 Businesspark Ave. * San Diego  CA  92131-1120
858-578-8964  *  FAX 858-578-0578
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nancy O'Malley [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
>Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 8:09 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: button manufacturer
>
>
>Does anyone have a button book that lists W.Stanley, London? I 
>have a small 
>metal button with eyelet that is so marked--probably late 
>18th-early 19th 
>century in date. Thank you in advance.
>
>Nancy O'Malley
>Assistant Director
>William S. Webb Museum of Anthropology
>1020A Export St.
>University of Kentucky
>Lexington, Ky. 40506
>Tele: 859-257-1944
>FAX: 859-323-1968
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>