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Hammond Turner & Son
Two piece
Fancy waistcoat blue glass half ball

Button 023

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Hammond Turner & Son
Two piece
Whistle back green/red glass

Button 024

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Hammond Turner and Son
Two piece
Fancy lines

Button 019

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Hammond & Co., Oxford St - Manchester? London?
One piece
Underwear four hole
Almost certainly not Hammond Turner & Sons (or others).
When the compnay operated out of Manchester, they were in Moseley Street and Bread Street, not Oxford Street.

Button 012

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Hammond Turner and Son
Whistle back black glass
Two piece

Button 001

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Hammond Turner and Son
Two piece
Half-round crystal
Has been converted into a cufflink, no damage.

Button 051

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Hammond Turner and Dickinson
One piece, flat
'Gold' spun circles
This button is in astoundingly good condition for its age. It was bought from a North American seller.

Button 073

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H T & Sons Best Qualty Plated (sic)
Basket weave
Described by the seller as silver plated, the backmark is in the backmarks gallery

Button 076

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H T & Sons
Marbled glass waistcoat button

Button 077

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Hammond Turner & Sons For John Bowen & Son
Backmark is in relevant gallery
Plain front

Button 086

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H T & Sons
Marbled glass
Complete with central brass dot in central hole, presumably attached to shank and used to secure it and backplate to the glass through pressure

Button 093

Image 12
H T & Sons Birm
'Milk glass'
This dome-backed button looks almost like pearl

Button 092

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H T & Sons Birm
Clear-cut interlocking triangles with central motif

Button 097

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H T & Sons Birm
Unlike 12, above, this has a dished front
Probably 'milk' glass

Button 070

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H T & Sons Birm
Beautiful 'tiger's eye' domed glass

Button 107

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Hammond Turner & Sons
This button was kindly given to me by Marty Wiemert, a proud member of Metal Detecting Maine. He found this button in his home state and contacted me about it. First he sent me photos, then he sent the button which makes a wonderful contribution to my collection. I cannot explain the back mark at the moment.

The button is a one-piece with a soldered shank and was made between 1820 and 1850 (roughly) as that was the period during which the company was known as Hammond Turner and Sons. The early style lettering is a further clue to the date.

Thanks Marty!

Button 116

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Hammond Turner & Sons
This button was given to me by Grant Maxwell-Thomson of Scotland. He is a keen metal detectorist who found this button near his home in Faslane.

The front of the button (which seems to have lost all of its gilding) appears to be completely plain and does not make a good photo. Like the button above, this is a one-piece with a soldered (and badly bent) shank. The button was made between 1820 and 1850, during which time the company was called Hammond Turner and Sons. Again, the early style of lettering is a clue to the date. There is what looks like a bow near the top, a delightful detail and one whose significance I cannot explain. The number 9429 which appears at the bottom is a complete mystery!

Thank you very much, Grant, for contacting me after finding this button and for sending it to add to my collection.

Button 148

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H T & Sons Birm
A lovely abalone-inlaid button which came home from California via ebay.

Button 157

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H T & Sons Birm
Another half-round waistcoat button, this tiem from New York, described by ebay seller as 'marbled glass'.

Button 160