Button Collectors Resource Site
Catalogues, Letters and Advertisements with one or two relics to follow. For some reason a few of the jpeg images are still refusing to transfer; more soon
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The Army & NavyStores Ltd.
The South American Handbook Trade & Travel pub. Ltd. 1951.
W.S.Burns Aberdeen.
Obituary [The] Aberdeen Press & Journal Wed. 31 August 1931
Courtesy of Maria Henderson Aberdeen Library.
Hobson & Sons London.
Advertisement from : British Red Cross Society First Aid Manual
No1. James Cantile. 2nd ed. Cassell & Co. Ltd London 1918
and another from: Fire Protection Year Book 1962 also appears in
the 1952 volume but with a different typeface.
Masters & Co. Cardiff. Extracts from a book titled: Ports of
the Bristol Channel dated 1893
Norman McCleod. Fire Protection Year Book 1962
Pipe & McGill Ltd.
Incorporating Shirley Brooks Ltd. The Gunner Advertisement
Stephen Simpson(est. 1829) Ltd. Preston.
Letter dated 9th July 1985 : Incidentally, I was using preformatted
letters & sent one asking about Samuel.Bros. Kind of them to
respond at all under thecircumstances...Taylors & Perrys
Birmingham Directory 1812 .
Samuel Brothers(St.Paul's) Ltd.
London. Letter dated 2nd August 1985 fate of companies early
records & a particularly helpful letterhead.
Uniform Clothing & Equipment Co. London.
Advertisement from : British Red Cross Society First Aid Manual
No1. James Cantile. 2nd ed. Cassell & Co. Ltd London 1918
Wathen Gardiner& Co. Bristol.
From: Fire Protection Year Book 1962.
CharlesAllcard
Advert Sheffield Post Office Directory 1859
C. W. Cheney& Son Ltd. Birmingham.
Letter dated 9th July 1985. In response to my query with regard to
General Service buttons alias Universal Pattern for Privates.
William Dowler& Sons Ltd. Birmingham.
Letter dated 17th July '85: helpful letterhead.
Archive, (sort of).
JohnCope
Post Office Directory 1859 images/johncope.jpg
Thomas FattoriniLtd.
Trophies & Medals
Company History
Golf
Livery
Medals
Buttons & Buckles
With thanks for the .pdf files courtesy of the company; reproduced
here with their kind permission, they remain the copyright of the
company.
James Grove& Sons Ltd.
Letter to H.C.Marshall M.B.E. dated 24th February 1981: identifying
& sizing, State Registered Nurses button.
Pictures (mine) of the SRN button.
Pictures (mine) of the QVR button.
Letter to H.C.Marshall M.B.E. dated 27th February 1981:
identifying & dating, Queen Victoria Rifles button & State Registered
Nurses button.
The London Badge & Button Company Ltd.
Catalogue:
These imagesare reproduced here by kind permission and remain
the copyright of the company.
J.R. Gaunt
& Sons Ltd.
Letter dated 21 June 1985: some company history; manufacture of
button backs; reference to samples:
1 strip stamping &cutting of brass backs.
2 separated brass backs.
3 aluminium backs & fronts with one RAF button ready to be
Extracts from undated Co.catalogue in Birmingham Library.
Extracts from undated Co.catalogue in my collection
Open Letter dated 19thFebruary 1991announcing thepurchase of
Gaunt by Firmins
Geen, Cadbury & Richards
Hulley's Birmingham Directory 1876
Advertisement .
Wrightson & Webb B'ham Directory 1846
Shalders' Birmingham Directory 1854
Taylors & Perry's Birmingham Directory 1812