Servant foot button in!

 Hi friends and greetings from warm and humid Minnesota.  Today i got a bee in my bonnet to do a small project that doesn't really accomplish much,  other than my desire to tinker. I have been wiring the house to put back the servant bells in each room.  Little to no evidence existed where the buttons actually were, but I knew what I wanted for the dining room,  a foot push button.  There wasn't evidence in the floor of a push button,  but some years ago,  I got my hands on the cover plate of a floor button.  No guts, just the cover plate dated 1909 with a patent. This cover plate sat in my collections for nearly 20 years.  Caked in varnish, shellac and lots of junk but I could see it was nickle or silver from the back.  I cleaned it all off, fairly easily with lacquer thinner and it came out a beautiful shiny silver.  I needed to cut a 2" round hole, just enough to make the plate flush with the floor.  Not trusting myself to make a perfectly round hole with a chisel, I took a 2" hole saw and cut just enough for the plate to sit flush and took my chisel to get the rest out.  It fit perfectly.  With no guts below it,  I simply drilled a hole through so that I could run the wire of the actual foot button through the center to the basement with the rest of the bell wires. It now sits under thr carpet, a little lump to summon the maid. I still dont have the bell system hooked up, that will have to be done when the kitchen is done, but a small project that I dont have to worry, where the heck I put the cover plate and push button.  Small hidden win for the day!