Button
Category
Jewellery
Date
1880 (circa)
Materials
Gold
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 288787.1
Summary
Five gold buttons of a plaited knot design, dating from around 1880.
Full description
This set was present at Calke Abbey by 1886, when it was described in the inventory of the family jewel case as a 'set of twisted gold buttons & studs' (Derbyshire Record Office, D22375/H/F/2/27).
Provenance
Part of a set made around 1880 and present at Calke Abbey by 1886, when it was described in the inventory of the family jewel case as a ‘set of twisted gold buttons & studs’. Thence by descent to Henry Harpur-Crewe (1921-91) and transferred with Calke Abbey and its contents to the National Trust by the Treasury in lieu of Capital Transfer Tax in 1985 with an endowment provided by the National Heritage Memorial Fund.