sample book
- Museum number
- 2018,8035.1
- Description
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Glass button sample book, fold-out construction, stiff card covered with orange buckram, containing four show cards with button samples (with space for a fifth, missing), each with factory numbers. Each card has between 6 and 9 rows, each with between 5 and 7 buttons. The space for mssing button card with annotation in German incorporating the date 20/3/41, presumably the date when the card was removed. Inside the back flap is the factory stamp: GEBRÜDER MAHLA / GABLONZ a/N.
- Production date
- 1920-1948
- Dimensions
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Height: 22 centimetres
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Width: 17 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For the history of the firm, and illustrations of other glass button samples see Petr Novy, 'The Jablonec Button' Muzeum Skla a Bizuterie, Jablonec nad Nisou 2007, pp. 65, 110, 114, 125, 127, 135, 138, 151, 152.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2018
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased by J. Rudoe in Czech Republic in 2008.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2018,8035.1