Transportation Buttons: Railroads (Transportation Uniform Buttons Ser.) [Hardcover]

Donald P. Van Court (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Donald P Van Court; 1st edition (December 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0961830107
• ISBN-13: 978-0961830106
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,187,101 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing book, July 24, 2004

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This review is from: Transportation Buttons: Railroads (Transportation Uniform Buttons Ser.) (Hardcover)

This is a wonderful piece of scholarship, truly a labor of love. It's an authoritative description of railroad uniform buttons, button construction, the metal-era history of button making, and the histories of the railroads that commissioned these buttons for their workers. Among those who collect uniform buttons, this is consdered to be THE reference book, at least for North American railroads.

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