Button
Category
Costume
Date
Unknown
Materials
plastic
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 748971.3.25.3
Summary
One of a pile of twenty seven off cuts of material and spare buttons for a series of clothing, wrapped in a brown paper 'Collard's Ltd' bag and held with a small leather strap with buckle. The middle of three buttons, made of plastic and the smallest, from a piece of dark fabric with three spare buttons. The fabric has a multi tonal finish producing a stripe in the weave. Two of the buttons are plastic and match, although one is smaller than the other, plain black plastic with four holes in the centre which is convex. The other button is metal with '* . SUSPENDER . . - | . | .' stamped into it.
Provenance
Straw collection bequeathed to The National Trust on the death in 1990 of William Straw.