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Button (Brass) - Levy New York 11/16" Metal Shirt Button Two Stars B1...circa 1885...button's backmark is an example of what button collectors call a "custom (or customer) backmark" -- meaning, at the customer's request the button manufacturer put the name of the business customer on the button's back, as a form of advertizing. Other examples are Brooks Brothers (clothing dealer) and Hyde & Goodrich, which was a jewelry and silverware business in New Orleans before and during the civil war. Neither of those companies ever manufactured any buttons, they were just sellers of them. (All of the buttons with the Hyde & Goodrich backmark were made the Scovill Manufacturing Company in Waterbury CT.)

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Arc.MS.56, Box 20, Folder 12