Early button with the coat of arms of Arkhangelsk province

Bronze, gilding, stamping. Original and quite rare button is in very good collectible condition. The subject of the land, not shelled. Diameter 24 mm Lug is bent a few, but whole. The guarantee of authenticity.

factory of brothers "Boo". One of the most famous button-making factories of the Russian Empire was founded in 1816 by the masters of copper, bronze and pewter eternal things of the shop, Johann Transhel and Burgerdom the Buch. She was in the 2nd part of the Admiralty of Saint Petersburg , in the 3rd quarter of Carpentry and Bolshaya Meshchanskaya street, at No. 99. In 1840-43, the factory passed to the brothers Boo, Agathon Karlovich (1816-1868) and Herman, who founded the company "Brothers Buch". By this time the factory already appears in part 3 of the city, 12 line of Vasilievsky island, the house № 24. By 1865, the company moved to the house № 47 on the 4th line of Vasilievsky Island belonged to them alone Agathon Boo. There were brothers and founded in 1843 the factory screws. After the death of Agathon Buch factory was managed by his widow Julia from 1868 to 1871. In 1870 the firm "Boo Brothers" got on the all-Russian Manufactory Exhibition in St. Petersburg the right to use the products the state emblem "for the high-quality screws,... wire nails and buttons". Probably, from 1872 to 1881 the principal owner of the firm "Brothers Buch" was the husband of Wilhelmina Autonony, one of 3 daughters of Agathon Buch, merchant Gottlieb Monin. Perhaps during this period the main role was played by the factory screws. In 1881, the button factory goes to a close relative's widow Julia Friedrich-Karl Alexandrovich Gutheil, 1853, R., hereditary honorary citizen, of the Lutheran faith, educated in Moscow Peter and Paul school, St. Petersburg 2 Guild merchant. In 1886, Gutheil married the daughter of Gottlieb and Monina granddaughter Agathon Buch, Wilhelmina Julia-Maria. In 1890, 5 line of Vasilievsky island by the architect V. Schaub construct a new 2-storey factory building, No. 20 and 4-storey apartment house. November 9, 1892 together with his wife F. K. A. Gutheil registered Trading House (General partnership) "are the Factory and trading metal buttons Buch brothers in St. Petersburg" with a capital of 10 thousand rubles. According to 1916, and manufactured the adviser, merchant of 2 Guild Gutheil lived in the house No. 20, 5 line of Vasilievsky island with his wife, son and daughter

"By decree of Emperor Paul I of December 12, 1796 "a new division of the country into provinces" was restored the division into provinces and districts. Then, in connection with the introduction of the local institutions of new States by the act of February 15, 1797 was established the system of "provincial statskij uniforms" with a single cut and color coats — of dark-green cloth, single breasted, turndown collar, no lapels. To distinguish the provinces now served only as the collar and cuffs, which, as was explained, were to be "those colors which are provincial coats of arms" (he was referring to the color of the shield of). These five colors: red, white, blue, yellow and light green. The yellow or white buttons depicting the provincial coat of arms. Approved "samples such uniforms", then sent "to the introduction into use as servants in the provincial States and having their estates".

In the following years (from 1801 ) the uniforms of individual provinces were subjected to private changes (more than just colors of collar and cuffs) with the simultaneous replacement of the previous style of uniform with a new one. These changes to the provincial uniform of the first years of the nineteenth century were secured and brought into the system by a decree dated August 3, 1809, In 1824, the color differences of the provincial coats (collars and cuffs) have been modified so as to make them similar for the provinces included in each of the Generalgouvernement. Red collars and cuffs received only uniforms the Petersburg and Moscow provinces. Uniforms some provinces had collar and cuffs of different colors. Widely spread colored piping on the collar, the cuffs and the sides of the uniforms. Buttons could be white or yellow metal depicting the provincial coat of arms. The difference between the uniforms of different provinces in color collars and cuffs were eliminated January 1, 1831: now the collars and cuffs were to be of red cloth; the difference now was merely to buttons (they were all yellow metal), which were minted coat of arms and the name of the province.

July 4, 1857, a law was passed "On the coats of arms of provinces, regions, governors, cities, and suburbs", by which the provincial coats of arms above the shield depicting the Imperial crown and around the shield, oak leaves with the St. Andrew's ribbon. On provincial uniforms used buttons for at least five different types. Provincial coats of arms repeatedly totally or partially changed, their image has undergone various additions, which is naturally reflected in the external form of the provincial buttons. The mite was brought also by the manufacturers of buttons, using their own versions of the approved images. As a result, the number of buttons governorate by type and options could exceed 1000 units (information from the website pugoviza.ru)