Okay I know its a button but I can't find any information on the back mark.
Back mark reads CHAUNCEY BROOKS BALTIMORE
Any help greatly appreciated
Thanks
Al
Okay I know its a button but I can't find any information on the back mark.
Back mark reads CHAUNCEY BROOKS BALTIMORE
Any help greatly appreciated
Thanks
Al
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I love history and our hobby really brings that history to light! I recommend you search the U.S. census records for Baltimore for 1830, 1840, and 1850 and see if your button maker is listed with his occupation!
Last edited by Full Metal Digger; 04-18-2020 at 11:05 AM.
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V3i- Prism IV- Pro Pointer
2020 GOAL: Any Flowing Hair coin
TOTAL 100 YEAR OLD COINS - -280
2020:
Silver: 11
Oldest U.S. Copper - 1795 Liberty Cap
Oldest U.S. Silver - 1829 Capped Bust Dime extra large 10C
Click here to view my album
Oldest Coin: 100-60 BC Gallic bronze coin (Sequani Tribe)
Oldest Silver Coin: 1156 hammered Pfennig from (now) Bavaria
Oldest U.S. coin: 1805 Draped Bust Large Cent
Best Coins EVER: 1625 4 Sols from Kingdom of Chateau Renaud, France
1662 15 Kreuzers, Leopold I, Austria
Best Relics: Bronze Age Arrowheads & Spearhead, 2c Roman silver ring, complete medieval knight's spur (x6)
YouTube Channel: Full Metal Digger
It is very possible that Chauncey Brooks was not a button maker. He could have been a dealer in clothing. Most buttons made in the US were produced by one of four button manufacturers, Waterbury, Scovill, Horstmann & Steele and Johnson.
I think your button would date from about 1820 to the late 1830s.
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