It is said that the company produced calicoes in a hundred different patterns before closing in 1856. Calico buttons were sold for 3 a dozen during the nineteenth century and came on cards that could be cut according to the purchaser's desired quantity. Color, Size and Shape Most calico buttons have white bodies and a colored transfer pattern. Like the cloth, calico buttons have patterns in shades of red, pink, brown, green, blue, purple, black, infrequently orange and even less frequently yellow. There also exist colored-body calico buttons with white transfer patterns, although they are not plentiful.
Body colors are pink, dark blue, light blue, brown, tan, gray, turquoise, orange and green.
Calico buttons are also found with two and three holes. Bapterosses used this knob in order to prevent a British patent infringment. Additonal sew-through shapes exist, but are not as common. Recently discovered are gaiters with calico patterns and a self shank calico with a white body, white luster and white pattern. A sew-through rimmed calico.