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Central Pacific Railroad Uniform
Buttons
Courtesy Bruce C. Cooper Collection.
Two Manufacurers of High Dome, Gilt "Staff" Uniform Buttons,
both from Waterbury, Connecticut:
Scovill Manufacturing Company
Waterbury
Button Company, Est. 1821
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CPRR commercial button.
Van Court's 2 1/4
Backmarked:
SCOVILL MF'G CO
WATERBURY
Staff type circa 1867
23mm; gilt.
Courtesy Jerry DeHay, Button Heaven.
Scovill Manufacturing Co.
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in Crofutt's "Transcontinental Railroad Guide," 1870.
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