BUTTON
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1900
- Date Range To
- 1910
- Materials
- PAPER, COTTON
- Catalogue Number
- P19960035000
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1900
- Date Range To
- 1910
- Materials
- PAPER, COTTON
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Length
- 5.8
- Width
- 5.5
- Description
- PURPLE PAPER CARD HAS 36 SILVER SQUARES DRAWN ON IT WITH 23 SMALL, WHITE WOVEN CLOTH (COTTON?) BUTTONS ATTACHED IN INDIVIDUAL SQAURES. ARE ATTACHED WITH A THREAD THROUGH THE PAPER AND THROUGH THE LARGER WEAVE BACK OF THE BUTTONS. MANY OF THE SQUARES WITHOUT BUTTONS HAVE THREADS THROUGH THEM STILL, AND HOLES. ON BACK IS LAYERS OF BROWN PAPER. HAS IN PENCIL "2 DOZ" TWICE, AND SOME OTHER ILLEGIBLE PENCIL WRITING. PAPER IS BADY WORN ON EDGES AND DOWN CENTER FOLD. SOME BUTTONS FALLING OFF. SOME RIPS IN PAPER.
- Subjects
- CLOTHING-ACCESSORY
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- History
- FOUND BY DONOR IN SEWING BASKET; HISTORY UNKNOWN EXCEPT THAT IT WOULD LIKELY HAVE BELONGED TO DONOR'S MOTHER, WHO LIVED IN ENGLAND.
- Catalogue Number
- P19960035000
- Acquisition Date
- 1996-06
- Collection
- Museum
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