Button
Category
Costume
Date
Unknown
Materials
plastic
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 748971.3.6.4
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 smaller button from piece of dark multi tone fabric with a paper label pined to it and two spare buttons. The pin is silver in colour with a small flat head. The label has four small holes one in each corner and a handwritten '7' or '9' in blue in the top left corner. The label is printed in black ink with an image of a whale fine with waves and the words; 'SIZE 9 BREAST 30 SLEEVE 28 WAIST 29 ....LEG 27 1/2.. REPEAT No. .................. 7944'. The buttons are plastic with '8 . SUSPENDER . . - | . | .', one button is smaller than the other and sits on top they are held with a piece of cotton.
Provenance
Straw collection bequeathed to The National Trust on the death in 1990 of William Straw.