Buttons (11 page)

Early-twentieth-century celluloid buttons, domed over metal backs.

Ceramic buttons, all marked ‘Ruskin’.

Glass ball buttons, often made to imitate hardstones.

To Andrew, Angela, Vicki and Tim, with thanks for your moral support and technical wizardry, and to Isaac James Frederick Meredith.

Published in 2010 by Shire Publications Ltd,

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Copyright © 2000 by Alan and Gillian Meredith.

First published 2000; reprinted 2004 and 2010.

Shire Library 382.

Print ISBN: 978 0 74780 466 6

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data:

Meredith, Alan

Buttons. – (The Shire book)

1. Buttons – Great Britain – History

2. Buttons – Collectors and collecting

I. Title II. Meredith, Gillian

391.4’5’0941

ISBN-10 0 7478 0466 4

Front cover illustration:

A selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century buttons, including: (top section, centre) stamped brass, c.1920s, an Egyptian head, reflecting the interest provoked by the Tutankhamun discoveries; (lower section, top left) Japanese metalwork; (top right) lithograph, glass-covered, with cut steel decoration; (in second row) a silver horse inlaid in horn, and a Chinese man etched in mounted ivory; (in third row) a mosaic scarab beetle mounted in silver; (centre button) hand-painted enamel with cut steel surround; (lower right) a pansy shape carved in pearl with diamante centre.

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