String of 218 mostly small buttons purchased August 8, 2006 from Aylmer, Ontario, Canada. Touch button is a large metal framed button with missing center design (some traces remain around edge of rim). The string is comprised of many jeweled and glass-centered waistcoats, charm string glass buttons and wire-shanked black glass buttons. Many of the black glass buttons are chipped or flea bitten, several are broken. Notable buttons include three small gilt buttons with back marks, a medium Murphy Dublin back-marked brass button, a large Hammond Turner & Sons back-marked brass wolf’s head button, a large drum with speckled red glass center, two small hunt buttons, one with a rabbit, one with a hound with New Sporting Designs 1844 back marks, small running rabbit button with Extra Rich Quality back mark, leather-covered metal button with Crowley’s patent back mark, 4 waistcoat buttons with back mark reading Gold Plated– one with purple glass center, one with green glass center, one with black glass Greek key center, one with clear berry glass center, small clam broth glass with orange painted croquet mallets, wicket and balls design, two reflectors, black glass male head (has pointed beard and headdress with feather pointing down from back), small black glass with spade design, china balls and cones, medium turned vegetable ivory button, large brass coat button back marked Boggett & Reynold London Saint Martin Lane, small rubber buttons, waistcoat with leather center, small steel buttons in various shapes (fluted, grooved cone, ball, cone, four leaf clover). String arrived in a tangle of miscellaneous other strings, threads, twine and cotton floss that had to be cut and trimmed away to reveal the intact charm string. Misc. stings saved in plastic baggie.
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