Buttons to Birmingham like Coal to Newcastle according to Charles Dickens: http://books.google.com/books?id=LTMFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA463&dq=Wallis+Birmingham+buttons#PPA463,M1 Brief account of range and quantity of buttons being manufactured in Birmingham (1835): "... Some idea may be formed of the extent of the button trade, when I say, that upwards of six hundred millions of button shanks are made in Birmingham annually." http://books.google.com/books?id=eF8JAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA17&dq=%22An+History+of+Birmingham%22+Hutton#PPA171,M1 BirminghamRButtons: http://books.google.com/books?id=AtIvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA88&vq=soho&dq=buttons+Boulton&as_brr=1 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Tucker" <[log in to unmask]> > Does anyone have any information on gilt buttons (brass buttons with > quality > marks) manufactured by "W [William?]. Wallis?
