{"id":38883,"date":"2009-11-24T10:05:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T10:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/?p=38883"},"modified":"2009-12-01T13:51:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T13:51:14","slug":"button-identifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/11\/button-identifi\/","title":{"rendered":"Button Identification?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently moved into a ~1900 rowhouse and found this oversized &#8220;button&#8221; near our old dumb waiter shaft. It extends through the wall to the other side. A friend who lives in a similar building has the same button, but it is not near any (extant) dumb waiter.<\/p>\n<p>Can someone help us to identify this? Is it a call button for the dumb waiter, or for a servant? It&#8217;s been painted over so many times at this point, it&#8217;s hard to identify. Originally I thought it was an old, sawed off post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently moved into a ~1900 rowhouse and found this oversized &#8220;button&#8221; near our old dumb waiter shaft. It extends through the wall to the other side. A friend who lives in a similar building has the same button, but it is not near any (extant) dumb waiter. 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