Size: 15/16"

Loop Shank

Please note: the button has scuffing and pitting (please refer to photos)

Back Mark is faintly visible but can not be made out.  The shape of the button and shank places it in the early 1800s

Silver tone one piece button.

The fashion for livery buttons started in the mid-eighteenth century and by the nineteenth century had become an accepted custom among the upper classes who maintained household servants. The practice carried on into the Edwardian era of the early twentieth century until income tax and changing social and economic conditions after the First World War quietly put an end to the era of the livered servant