BUTTON TREBLE RICH

[MONCUNI]

hello!
i'm a newly registered Italian detectorist
I found this little button with the inscription TREBLE RICH STANDARD on its back
I read on the net that this trade mark made the buttons for the Confederates during the Civil War
can anybody give me further information about this button and the TREBLE RICH ?
i wonder what it was doing under an olive tree in calabria, Italy
excuse my poor english
thank you

 

[ohio fred]

n/t

 

[bossman]

The relics form is full of civil war guys if anyone can tell you they can

 

[cosmic]

http://pweb.netcom.com/~jimyce/bm.html

 

[Tom_in_CA]

I think that wherever you read "civil war", must've just been referring to that PERIOD of time (1860s), on an american post. Sometimes we use the term loosely, to refer to that era, but it doesn't necessarily mean it was a military item, or necessarily from the USA. Just the period. "Gilt" buttons were born out of a necessity, just after 1800-ish, to verify the quality of buttons, and the thickness of their platings. So "treble" would mean "triple" plating. So supposedly, persons buying buttons, would see the back-marks, and know the quality.

Sounds silly now, but I guess at the time, buttons on clothing were a status thing (like we have certain brand sunglasses, or bluejeans, or whatever today). The backmarks have various wordings like "treble gilt" "london fine" "rich orange gilt", etc.. etc.. etc.... and were made, I think, primarily in europe? The gilt (aka "quality") markings appear on both military and civilian (like yours) buttons. The practice appears to have fizzled out by the mid to late 1860s.