Most of the offerings on this page also show "RV"(relative values A-G. "A" is common "G" is scarce). Sizes are "coat" (around 23mm) and smaller "cuff" (14-17mm). Mouse-over or click most images below to see the back. Ordering is by e-mail, copy or click my e-mail here and let me know you are ordering from Uniform 2 page, indicate the order code found in brackets under the image before the description, describe the button(s) you want and the price indicated. US shipping is $4.00, a handling charge may be added. I accept mailed US checks and Paypal payments. I usually don't ship internationally but if you want to order from outside the US, contact me for shipping cost and payment requirement info: carolc@vintagebuttons.net or if you can't click this, just copy and paste my e-mail into your program, carolc@vintagebuttons.net Back To Uniform Index or return to CC's Buttons. REFRESH this page each time you come and visit to see the most current version. |
![]() (Tran-1) 1890's Capital Traction Co. (D.C.) gilt brass coat size (23mm) and small cuff size uniform button. Mouse-over or click above image for back view (closer image links below). Van Court: 45/20, RV-B. Firm ran cable cars, electric trolleys and later buses before merging to create Capital Transit Co. in 1933. Some toning on face, not so glaring in person. Closer views click: here; here. State size when ordering. 1 Coat Size $15.00; 1 Small Cuff Size $10. |
![]() (Tran-2) 1910-1927 Wilmington & Philadelphia Traction Co. nickle plated coat size (23mm) uniform button. Mouse-over or click above image for back view (closer image links below). Van Court: 45/12, RV-C. No back mark but construction is correct to the period noted above. Ran rail transportation in Delaware and Pennsylvania, state-wide. Closer views click: here; here. 1 Coat Size button available. $15.00 |
![]() (Tran-3) 1921-1952 United Electric Railways Co. (Rhode Island, state-wide street trolleys, buses, trolley coaches) nickle plated coat size (23mm) uniform button. Mouse-over or click above image for back view (closer image links below). Supreme Quality back mark fully braised back. Van Court: 73/11, RV-B. Closer views click: here; here. 1 Coat Size button available. $12.00 |
![]() (Tran-4) Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal (Union Station). Very shiny, unused, may have been restruck for a movie which frequently films at Union Station. Van Court: 31/17. Coat Size (23mm), 2pcs avail. $15.00ea. SMALL cuff size (9pcs avail.) $10.00ea. |
![]() (Tran-7) Pacific Electric, city, interurban, freight (Los Angeles area). Van Court: 41/20. One small cuff good gilt $10; Coat size (23mm) 2pcs avail. $12.00 (both have tarnish). State coat or cuff when ordering. |
![]() (Tran-8) c.early 1900's Los Angeles "Pacific Electric" uniform button (coat and cuff sizes available). Mouse-over or click above image for back view (see large image links below). Van Court: 41/21. Coat is 23mm, cuff 15mm, nickle plated, some surface deposits, not bad. Closer views click here; here; here. Coat size $15.00ea (3pcs avail); Small cuff size $8.00ea (10pcs avail) |
![]() (SOLD-Tran-9) Michigan Central Railroad. Nickle plated coat size uniform button. Van Court 5/6. Mouse-over above image for back view, closer views linked right below. Scovill back mark, not a restrike. Back and closer views click here; here. SOLD $12.00. |
![]() (Tran-10) Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. Mouse-over above image for back view, closer views linked right below. Nickle plated coat size uniform button. Van Court 29/2, RV-C. British back mark. Back and closer views click here; here. 1pc avail. $12.00. |
![]() (Tran-11) Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway, aka "Panhandle Ry". Nickle plated SMALL cuff size uniform button. Van Court 8/8. RV-D. Back and closer views click here; here. SMALL (2pcs avail) $10.00ea. |
Railroad ![]() (Tran-12) Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway. Coat size Fox Pat. shell button cover marked Scovill c.1914. Van Court 12/21. RV-D. Could use polishing if you like that look. Back and closer views click here; here. 1pc avail. $22.00. |
![]() (Tran-13) Eastern Rail Road, vintage, brass. Mostly good gilt, not polished, may have slight surface use and light toning. Van Court 10/24; RV-D. Back mark click here. Coat Size 23mm (14pcs. avail.) $20.00ea |
![]() (Tran-15) Third Avenue Railroad vintage uniform button. Took over Union Ry. Co. of NYC in 1912. Started 1857 horse cars, 1885 cable including only cross-town cable line, mail cars, elect. trolleys and buses. Last NY City trolley ran 1948 but ran in Yonkers until 1952. Somewhat worn design but still decent. Van Court: 63/25, RV-B. Back mark Browning King & Co. Coat size 23mm (7/8"+) 3pcs. avail: $10.00ea. |
City Trolley ![]() (Tran-16) Third Avenue Railroad vintage uniform button. Low convex, slight flattening due to fairly wide plane of the logo. Van Court: 63/25, RV-A. SMALL Cuff Size 16mm. (5/8") 2pcs. avail: $5.00ea. |
![]() (Tran-17) Third Avenue Railroad vintage uniform button. Nickle plated showing brass at the high points (not evident in this image). Van Court: 63/25, RV-B. Back mark click: here. Coat size 23mm (7/8"+) 4pcs. avail: $10.00ea. as-is |
Coat & Cuff Sizes Avail. ![]() (Tran-18) Mass. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway antique uniform button c.1892. Started 1887 with horse drawn lines, electrified 1893, controlled by New Haven 1901, bus operations 1920s. Succeeded by Worcester Street Ry. 1932. Van Court: 55/10, RV-C. Back mark click: here. Small cuff size (1pc avail) $6.00; Coat Size 23mm (7/8"+) $10.00 |
![]() (Tran-21) Brooklyn Line, pictorial car. Gilt brass. Coat Size 23mm. Out of original Waterbury storage wrapper, may be a restrike used in example sets of defunct styles Waterbury issued some years ago, straight shank, does not have the "D" shank which earmarks the most recent restrikes. Back, side views click: here; and here. Several pieces available. $10.00ea. |
![]() (Tran-22) New York & Brooklyn Bridge trolley. No wear or use, from unused Waterbury stock, straight shank, does not have the very modern "D" shank but it's probably a restrike of defunct styles Waterbury put together into sets for "railfans". Coat Size 23mm. Out of original Waterbury storage wrapper. Wrapper and back views click here; here; and here. Several pieces available. $10.00ea |
![]() (Tran-23) SMALL Atlantic City and Shore Railroad, Shore Fast Line. Nickle plated. Van Court: 60/1, RV-C. (21pcs. avail.). SMALL 5/8": $5.00ea |
![]() (Tran-24) Denver City Tramway. Van Court: 44/2; RV-C. Gilt wear, toning. Back marked "Denver City Tramway Co.". SMALL Cuff: $6.00 (2pcs avail.) |
![]() (Tran-25) Southern Pacific RR. Van Court: 21/1. Coat Size 1pc avail. $7.00 |
![]() (Tran-26) The Gray Line, sightseeing coaches. Coat size (1pc avail) $9.00 |
![]() (Tran-27) Pre-Greyhound Lines c.1920's unused Motor Transit Corp. Blue Goose Lines (operated in Indiana) Fox Patent button cover shell. This is a counter in competition on a Div II tray. Back and closer views click here; here. ONLY one small cuff size shell cover available $10.00 |
Here's what I found on Wikipedia: To comply with an Indiana statute (one which required that corporations doing business in the Hoosier State be domiciled there), the MTC had already (in November 1926, the same month as its own incorporation) created a wholly owned subsidiary, based in Indiana and named as the Greyhound Lines, Inc., of Indiana (called also the GLI of Indiana), to conduct the route between Chicago and Indianapolis (mostly in Indiana). Thereby the GLI of Indiana became the first business unit of the growing Greyhound empire to make a public use of the name of the Greyhound Lines. The GLI of Indiana also took over another firm, the Blue Goose Lines, running in the Hoosier State from Indianapolis southward to Evansville and northward to Kokomo and onward to Fort Wayne (all four in Indiana), bought from Ralph Bogan and Swan Sundstrom, two original busmen from northern Minnesota. [The two sellers continued as key players at Greyhound. Bogan served eventually as the vice president of The Greyhound Corporation during the presidency of Orville Swan Caesar (1946-1956), after the retirement of Carl Eric Wickman, the principal founder of Greyhound; Sundstrom served as a long-time president of the Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines.] In 1929 the MTC became renamed as The Greyhound Corporation (with an uppercase T, because the word "The" was an integral part of the legal name of the corporate entity). During the early years of the growth of the Greyhound empire, the GLI of Indiana performed an important function, by operating a number of significant routes before they became transferred to other operating companies." |
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