Button Collection (page 3)

Two pounder pom pom shell case base - Army Service Cap
A two pounder pom pom shell case base made into an Army Service Cap with a Royal Artillery button in its centre. Trench Art

Button hook made from a WWI bullet case
Button hook made from a First World War bullet case with a fixed Officers coat badge and sleeve button. Trench Art

A coal-scuttle made from two types of shell cases (one a 2 pounder) and a naval button with the engraved inscription - HMS Maenad, Jutland, 31st May 1916. HMS Maenad was a Moon (M) class destroyer

Ole Bill printed fabric doll with wood and button detail, representing the First World War character by Bruce Bairnsfather

Letter opener Engraved Souvenir de la Campagne L Artois
Letter opener. Engraved Souvenir de la Campagne L Artois 1914, 15, 16 with a General Service button on the bullet handle and a French artillery button on the base. Trench Art

Letter opener Engraved To Aunt and Uncle from Charlie
Letter opener. Engraved To Aunt and Uncle from Charlie with the flags of the UK and US. Dated 1914-1919. Has a General Service button on the base of the bullet handle. Trench Art

Letter opener Engraved Souvenir de France
Letter opener. Engraved Souvenir de France with leaves and branches and a German Army button on the bullet handle. Trench Art

Letter opener Engraved Amiens
Letter opener. Engraved Amiens with leaves and branches with a German Army button on the bullet handle. Trench Art

Letter opener Engraved Somme
Letter opener. Engraved Somme with General Service button on the bullet handle. Trench Art

Letter opener Engraved Souvenir of Salonika 1915-16-17
Letter opener. Engraved Souvenir of Salonika 1915-16-17. With Turkish Army button on the bullet handle. Trench Art

Letter opener Engraved Cambrai
Letter opener. Engraved Cambrai with German Army button on the bullet handle. Trench Art

Letter opener Engraved Kathleen with affection
Letter opener. Engraved Kathleen with affection with Belgian Army button on the bullet handle. Trench Art

Letter opener Engraved HMS Mansfield
Letter opener. Engraved HMS Mansfield with Royal Naval button on the bullet handle. Trench Art

Tommys peaked cap made from German shell case, WW1
Lower part of a German shell case made into a Tommys peaked cap with a German Imperial button on the front. Trench Art

Knitting pattern 1949
Knitting pattern providing instructions on how to make a sweater with button front, short sleeve, high neck and small collar. 1949

Keeping track of German raiders by G. H. Davis
Keeping track of German raiders during the Second World War: the method pictorially explained, from the moment their approach is noted until the sounding of the alert in the threatened areas

Advert for Aquascutum coats 1934
Aquascutum raincoats, overcoats and macintoshes. Date: 1934

Woman in elegant sports coat and skirt
A woman in an elegant sports coat and skirt, sitting on a shooting stick. The outfit is in heather mauve, flecked with green or with mauve suede facings

Women and childrens gloves 1924
Collection of 1920s American silk gloves in tricot and milanese weave, and chamois suede. Date: 1924

Womens long gloves 1924
Collection of 1920s American silk gloves in tricot and milanese weave. Date: 1924

Button card with little girl and mirror
Button card, depicting a little girl in a red and white coat and hat, looking in a mirror. There are four real white buttons stitched to her coat, and four green ones on her leg. Date: 20th century

Advert for Flamingo raincoats 1935
The latest aquatite production- the Flamingo light weight raincoat. Rubber-less odourless, hygienic and self-ventilating. The Flamingo tripple-proofed fashion coat folds or rolls into a very small

WW1 - Soldier gives away all souvenir buttons from uniform
WW1 - A slightly daft-looking young Soldier has to resort to a large safety pin, as he has given away all the souvenir buttons from his uniform to family and female admirers... Date: circa 1915

Captain Robert Falcon Scott - Polar Explorer
Scott of the Antarctic. Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) - who lost his life in an ill-fated race to be the first person to reach the South Pole. Date: circa 1907

Playbill postcard for Alfs Button
The most popular manifestation of Orientalism after WWI seems to have been Alfs Button. W.A Darlingtons novel appeared in1920, was filmed (silent movie) the same year

Sapphire turban button
A rose-cut facetted deep-blue sapphire mounted in a button of quartz, inlaid with gold, rubies & emeralds. No 198 in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane

Gelsemium empervirens, yellow jasmine
Centaurea sp. cornflower. Folio 36 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Pearl Button Making at Merxplas Labour Colony, Belgium
Pearl-button making at Merxplas (or Merksplas) labour colony and beggars depot, Belgium Date: 1934

Button from the Strand Union Workhouse, London
A corroded metal button from an inmates uniform at the Hackney Union workhouse. Date: Date unknown

Button from St Margaret & St John, Westminster, Workhouse
A corroded button from an inmates uniform at the St Margaret & St John, Westminster Union workhouse. Date: Date unknown

Button from Nottingham Union Workhouse
A metal button from an inmates uniform at the Nottingham Union workhouse. Date: Date unknown

Button from Hackney Union Workhouse, London
A metal button from an inmates uniform at the Hackney Union workhouse. Date: Date unknown

Brass Button from Thorne Union Workhouse, London

ULIVIs F-RAYS
Signor Ulivis F-Rays will make it possible for explosives to be detonated by remote control : push-button warfare becomes a freseeable possibility Date: 1914

Metropolitan Police communications room, London
View of a Metropolitan Police communications room, showing three officers sitting at desks on the right. There are several push button telephones

Late Victorian or Edwardian button hook
A late Victorian or Edwardian button hook bearing the name of the maker, Frank A Townsend, Hosier, Albert Street (Derby). Button hooks were used for fastening small buttons on footwear or clothes

Queens Crown Civil Defence Corps button badge
A Queens Crown Civil Defence Corps button badge in brass and enamel. late 1940s-1950s

Two women in outfits by Martial et Armand, and Bernard
Two fashionable women both wearing tubular coat dresses. On the left, black and white horizontal stripes and fur collar, by Martial et Armand

Button Makers in 18th C
Three button makers in a french factory in the 18th century. The buttons they are making here are in metal. Date: Circa 1760

American ladies coat fashion

Metropolitan Police fingerprint database
A man sits at a monitor to look at fingerprints on the Metropolitan Police database

Metropolitan Police buttons
Two Metropolitan Police buttons, one with a silvery finish, the other gold. They are set alongside a one penny piece to give an idea of their size

Refueling a British Road Services truck
A promotional photograph for British Road Services. Here a truck of the fleet is refueled at a trade pump. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

A Worker at an Exchange
A worker adjusts the wiring connections at a telecommunications exchange. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Lear / Nonsense / Dutton
There was an Old Person of Dutton, whose head was as small as a button, So, to make it look big, he purchased a wig, and rapidly rushed about Dutton

Sketches of the Socialist Meeting in Trafalgar Square, 1886
Engraving showing a series of sketches of the Socialist Meeting in Trafalgar Square, London, in November 1886. The images show (clockwise from top left)

Germans - Button Magnets
A new method of German frightfulness as magnets are used to attract buttons away from the braces of British soldiers by a German plane and thus render em incapacitated

The Workless man-of -all-work
Illustration of a man reading the paper whilst all the household work is done by machinery. The sketch depicts what was then considered a glimpse into the future

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