unknown button find !!

[sasquache]

Well here goes i can read all the letters on the button i found on sunday O.C.S on top and B.C.O on bottom the dots arent exactly in the right area thay should be under the letters here are the pics i used penny too show accual size of button any one know what it stands for it is a waterbury button co button and has some gold gilt under the crud. thanxs SAS

 

[Muddyshoes]

(From Googling..)

Waterbury made buttons for the military since the early 1800s including both sides of the civil war, and later. Could OCS be something "Confederate States". BCO, possibly short for "B" Company? Dunno.. Officer Candidate School? Maybe a military school button? Do I get an AT Pro if I guess right?

Cool find, I'm sure someone here will know where it's from.

- Muddyshoes

 

[sasquache]

HAHA thanxs Muddyshoes for the info

 

[dabbie1]

button looks like a confederate home guard,oversee confederate states,co mpany b.

 

[Emmit]

Two-piece low-convex brass uniform button, coat size: 22 mm. Front: rope border outside a plain border, lined field, the letters "O.C.S. B.Co." According to Van Court, "This design was worn on famous Fall River Line boats", page 244 volume one. And, he says: the company was formed in 1877 by the Old Colony RR. Back mark: " Waterbury Button Co. Waterbury Con.". dm in between two lines. This back mark used 1866-1900, according to Tice page 84

The Fall River Line was a combination steamboat and railroad connection between New York City and Boston that operated between 1847 and 1937. It consisted of a railroad journey between Boston and Fall River, Massachusetts, where passengers would then board steamboats for the journey through Narragansett Bay and Long Island Sound to the line's own Hudson River dock in Manhattan. For many years, it was the preferred route to take for travel between the two major cities. The line was extremely popular, and its steamboats were some of the most advanced and luxurious of their day.

I hope that's right nice button!

 

[dahut]

Two-piece low-convex brass uniform button, coat size: 22 mm. Front: rope border outside a plain border, lined field, the letters "O.C.S. B.Co." According to Van Court, "This design was worn on famous Fall River Line boats", page 244 volume one. And, he says: the company was formed in 1877 by the Old Colony RR. Back mark: " Waterbury Button Co. Waterbury Con.". dm in between two lines. This back mark used 1866-1900, according to Tice page 84

The Fall River Line was a combination steamboat and railroad connection between New York City and Boston that operated between 1847 and 1937. It consisted of a railroad journey between Boston and Fall River, Massachusetts, where passengers would then board steamboats for the journey through Narragansett Bay and Long Island Sound to the line's own Hudson River dock in Manhattan. For many years, it was the preferred route to take for travel between the two major cities. The line was extremely popular, and its steamboats were some of the most advanced and luxurious of their day.

I hope that's right nice button!

Some finely researched and presented info, Emmit.
Thank you sincerely.

 

[sasquache]

OMG!!! This is just awesome news thank you so much for all of your effort on the info Emmit

 

[Emmit]

No problem. E=bay had simular button on it with the top info and then I just wikied the fall river line. Are you from up around NY or Boston sasquache?

 

[sasquache]

Well thank you for the info just the same and no im in Auburn,Maine and i found the button at a old home (1700's) site where a old hotel a ferry would dock(late 1890's) on the lake shore so not so sure how it got too be in the middle of the woods up hill lol but there area has seen people for 2 or 3 hundred years.thanks agane my friend

 

[Emmit]

I love me some research. Check out this link describing a certain ship from the Maine area that at one time made the Fall river run and also sailed the Maine coast-line...perhaps some sailor transferred from a fall river line ship and retained his uniform and brought it north with him. http://www.rustycans.com/HISTORY/ssfrankjones.html I really enjoyed researching this find! It gave me a new insight into how people moved around back then. We had quite a transit system. Thank you for sharing!

 

[dahut]

Well thank you for the info just the same and no im in Auburn,Maine and i found the button at a old home (1700's) site where a old hotel a ferry would dock(late 1890's) on the lake shore so not so sure how it got too be in the middle of the woods up hill lol but there area has seen people for 2 or 3 hundred years.thanks agane my friend

Something you may not know is that buttons were hard to come by back in those days. We take them for granted today, but they were costly and were a sign of some status back then. They were hoarded and held onto, which is why they often turn up far from what seems their rightful place.
Once you had some, they were used and reused, over and over.

We may get back to that one day, at our present rate.