These sources may be helpful:
Albert, Lillian Smith, and Kathryn Kent
1949 The Complete Button Book. Doubleday, Garden City, New York.
Butler Brothers
1915 Butler Brothers Catalogue 1915. Butler Brothers Wholesalers, New
York.
Butler Brothers
1926 Butler Brothers Catalogue 1926. Butler Brothers Wholesalers, New
York.
Herskovitz, Robert M.
1978 Fort Bowie Material Culture. Anthropological Papers of the
University of Arizona No. 31. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Houghton, Susan
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 8:22 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Button Reference Question ...
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-/100000000
00696106/g.html
I think Albert's American Uniform button book is blue..... :-)
Susan Houghton
Senior Cultural Resources Specialist, Environmental Studies & Permitting
Group
Burns & McDonnell
Phone: 816-823-6046
Cell: 913-302-4770
www.burnsmcd.com
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Branstner, Mark C
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 10:11 AM
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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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