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2. Waterbury Button Co (Johnson #857-A)
3. H. Bros & Co Phil
Dv. Tu'o-piece rvith border; a u'alking postrnan with the initials US P.O.D.
No data.

FD 70 United States Postal
Service; turo-piece'vl,,ith border
and inner ring.
A. The eagle u,ith U.S.
MAIL below,on a
lined field rvith W.B.
Co. on top of the
shank; 197l; 16,20, 23
nllTl,,"' "..\bre.' Thg ng\\r
button for U.S. mail
employees, u,ith "hop- FDZOA\,'
per" back with extrud-
ed self "tunnel"
shank". Albert. ) White
metal, lightl1, copper colored.
Ar: Copper colored rnetal.
Unlisted Post Office Department Button
During WW'II, ne\\, uniforms \,'ere supplied with plastic buttons. However,
workers with metal buttons could still keep theirs.
This button is a "bluish-gray plastic or other non-metal material".
Author"s note.'This is only a small number of the United States Post Office
buttons knor,l,n. Hopefully other collectors will help to identify those that are
not kno\\'n.
ACKNOWLEDGEN'IENTS
This article u,ould not have been possible u'ithout the valuable help of Bob Edmonclson of Dillard.
GA; Bill NtlcGuinn of lv{clean" \Al and Darrell Dillenbeck of Rochester. N.Y. I would like to
especially thank Meg Ausman-Postal Historian and Paula Rabkin-Associate Postal Historian.
S'ashington D.C.. for their eritical re'n'ien' of this manuscript.
REFERENCES
Albert. Alphaeus H.,, 1976. Record of American Uniform and Historical Buttotrs. Bicentennial
Edition. Bovertou,n Publishing Co.. Bol,erto\\'n. Pennsylvania 19512, 51 1p.
Johnson. Dar-id F.. 1948. Uniform Buttons AmericanArmed Forces 1874-1948' Vol. L
Descriptions & \'alues. Cenfurl, House. \\ratkins Glen, N.Y. 22I p.
Jolrnson. David F.. 1959. N{ilitarl, Uniforms and Their Buttons American Armed Forces 1784-
1948, Centurv House, \\'atkins Glen. N.Y.. 100 pls.. index to \l I and V II.
N'tcGuinn, \\'illiam F. and Bazelon. Bruce S. 1996. American Military Button Makers and Dealers:
Their Backmarks & Dates. 1996 Enlarged Edition. BookCrafters Inc. Freclericksbr"rrg, VA, 135 p.,
25 pl.
Tice. \\'arren K. 1997. Uniform Buttons of the United States. Il76-1865. Thomas Publications,
P.O. Box 3031, Gettl'sburg. PA 17235.520 p.