Uniform Buttons
You may be happy collecting uniform buttons from one area, or by one maker, or for one profession, or you may try to find every variation possible! I fall somewhere in between, not totally obsessive, but with an ever growing collection.
Westpac
No markers mark
Generic Government Button
I have shared generic VR and Crown buttons many times. This one has the cypher for Elizabeth II.
Stokes & Sons Melb. 1953-62.
NSW Prisons Department
Rider & Bell have been a metal manufacturing company in Sydney since 1920. See https://www.riderandbell.com.au/.
The only other button I have seen with their backmark is for the NSW Fire Department, and of much better quality. (See http://www.austbuttonhistory.com/australian-button-history/federation-to-ww2/#Rider_and_Bell_Sydney) They are known for tools, whistles, clamps etc rather than buttons. Did they actually make these buttons, or outsource them?
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