Friday, 4 October 2019

Button Collection


Buttons:

jet, brass, mother of pearl, leather, cloth, ivory, plastic

from Sanday Recycling Centre




A Lifetime's collection that spans generations and many decades. It includes buttons from different uniforms, a cluster of Victorian jet shank buttons, cufflinks with turquoise inlay, a twisted wire pin brooch dated 1898, a metal button with embossed winged boy and lion....  




As well as the Northern Lighthouse Keeper's jacket button
IN SALUTEM OMNIUM - for the safety of all