button
- Museum number
- 1868,0309.119
- Description
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Button ('post-button'); silver; circular boss decorated with twelve smaller bosses; disc pendant from centre with two rows of dots round rim; base plate stamped with maker's marks.
- Production date
- 1800-1850
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 2.40 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For 'post-buttons' see curator's comments for 1868.0309.115
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Acquisition notes
- 'Received from the Trustees of the Christy Collection in exchange for duplicates from Haslar Hospital.' (acquisitions register for 1868,0309). For explanation see 1868,0309.4.
The register also notes that these pieces were 'all from Norway'; they are all made in Sweden. Norway was still united to Sweden until 1905 which may explain the confusion.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1868,0309.119