There's a list of possibilities including:
Albert, Alphaeus  ~Record of American Uniform and Historical Buttons with Supplement, Boyertown Pub. Co., 1969, 1976. 
  
Albert, Alphaeus ~ Buttons of the Confederacy , Boyertown Pub. Co., Hightstown, NJ, 1963, 93 pages 

Albert, Alphaeus ~ Washington Historical Buttons, Hightstown, NJ, 1949, 82 pages. 

Binder, Daniel ~ Civil War Collector's Guide to Albert's Button Book: A Handbook of Updates, Corrections & New Discoveries, North South Trader, 
1993. 

These are from the Military section of the list at http://www.ebay.com/gds/BUTTON-BOOKS-A-COLLECTORS-REFERENCE-SHELF-/10000000000696106/g.html

I think Albert's American Uniform button book is blue..... :-)

Susan Houghton
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Subject: Button Reference Question ...

Hi Folks,

I used to own a book that I have since misplaced, and I am trying to reconstruct what the title was ...

My memory pictures a small, maybe 6 x 9 inch, red, hard cover book that listed all sorts of manufacturers of buttons and maybe other accoutrements from the Civil War era ... I seem to remember pictures of lots of brass button backs with "TREBLE GILT" inscriptions, etc. I might be wrong about the Civil War connection, but I think that was the purpose of the book, although the manufacturers could also be logically linked to civilian production as well.

This was a very thorough, high quality publication ...

Does this ring any bells with the 'button folk' out there?

Thanks in advance.

Mark



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