Military button
Birmingham Buttons Ltd
Category
Costume
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cardboard, felt and metal
Measurements
Box - 99 mm (length); 67 mm (width); 30 mm (depth), Each button (min) - 15 mm (diameter), Each button (max) - 25 mm (diameter), Felt decoration - 90 mm (length); 10 mm (width)
Place of origin
Birmingham
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 670341
Summary
A small white paper covered cardboard box containing twenty five large and four small NFS silver coloured buttons and a black and red felt decoration. The round, shiny silver buttons all have NFS on them in figured silver. Each has a metal loop on the reverse and 'Birmingham Buttons Limited' printed on each one. The decoration is a V shaped piece of black felt with linen backing. On this is stitched, in red silk, a smaller V shape. On the outside of the box is written in ink 'C O Cadbury'. Total number of items is 32.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mr Christopher Cadbury in March 1983.
Makers and roles
Birmingham Buttons Ltd, maker