Record ID: CORN-B93353
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast solid tin or tin alloy button with a slightly raised centre within a border of raised pellets. The back has the raised circular base, 2 mm in diameter, of an attachment loop and some iron staining around it suggesting that this might have been made of iron. But similar examples of tiny tin buttons, referenced below, have solid simple looped shanks that are circular in section and made of the same material in general. Egan & Pritchard (2002) illustrate a tin button with a border of raised pellets and the base of a solid circular shank on the bank on p.275, fig.178, no.1382, whi…
Created on: Thursday 20th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 24th June 2019
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Record ID: CORN-992A36
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead button, circular in plan and plano-convex in profile with a slightly domed face and a flat back. The face is decorated with a moulded six-spoked wheel design within a raised border before a stepped edge. On the back, the integral fastening shank is square in profile and rectangular in section, 6.5 mm square externally and 4 mm thick, with an aperture that is 3 mm square internally. On one side of the shank, on the back of the button, there are three narrow, parallel ribs at 1 mm intervals; on the opposite, slightly damaged side, only a single rib is visible. These are seam…
Created on: Thursday 26th July 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 31st July 2018
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Record ID: CORN-CD25AA
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy one-piece button, circular in plan and domed in profile with integral drilled shank, dating from the middle of 17th century. The convex face has engraved decoration with a lozenge-shaped central motif bordered by small pellets, surrounded by four flower petals alternating with stylised stamens of stalked cups enclosing pellets, and all within a ring of pellets around the circumference edge of the button. The shank hole contains the residue of an iron link. Read (2005) illustrates a similar button on page 40, no.134 which dates from the mid-17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2017
Last updated: Sunday 26th November 2017
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Record ID: CORN-151698
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast zinc alloy (tombac) three piece button, with only the upper half of the button remaining. This piece is hollow, with a domed faceted face with six raised triangles coming to a point in the centre, and a further six square and six triangular facets below the dome, around the circumference of the base. The front and back would have been soldered together with a simple separate looped shank attached to the back. Read (2005) illustrates a similar faceted three-piece button on page 87, no.363, which is dated from the late 17th to the 18th century. Bailey (2004) illust…
Created on: Thursday 19th January 2017
Last updated: Sunday 22nd January 2017
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Record ID: CORN-14E6A4
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast metal alloy discoidal button with convex front and concave back with an integral drilled rectangular-section trapezoidal shank with a rounded end. The upper face of the button is decorated with a five petalled flower in the centre surrounded by pendant floral swags and a border of multiple half-moon stamps. The upper face has been silvered, with substantial traces of silvering remaining in the concave areas of the design. The button appears to conform to the type illustrated by Read (2005) on pages 44-45, nos.154-156, which is dated from the mid 17th to the 18th century. He st…
Created on: Thursday 19th January 2017
Last updated: Sunday 22nd January 2017
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Record ID: CORN-28CD28
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy one-piece button, circular in plan and flat in profile, with an integral fastening loop at the back. The face of the button is decorated with an incised six-petalled flower backed with six pointed leaves. The petals have parallel incised lines running transversely through them. The rosette is surrounded by an incised circular border, following the edge of the button. The back of the button has a circular copper alloy attachment loop with an aperture that is 4 mm in diameter. Read (2005) illustrates a button with the same pattern on page 79, no.324, which is dated …
Created on: Thursday 15th December 2016
Last updated: Friday 16th December 2016
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Record ID: CORN-46848A
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver-plated copper alloy button of the Penzance Volunteers depicting the head of John the Baptist on a platter or charger central in the field, and the legend PENZANCE above and VOLUNTEERS below the head. The wire attachment loop remains on the back of the button, but has been flattened so that it is 3 mm high and 6 mm in length and 1.5 mm in thickness. Penlee House Museum and Art Gallery in Penzance have an example of one of these buttons on display (PEZPH : 2002.96) which is dated from c.1794-1797. Ivall & Thomas (1974) illustrate a similar button but with a younger head on pag…
Created on: Friday 23rd September 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2016
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Record ID: CORN-AB5B46
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead button, circular in plan and plano-convex in profile, with a raised pattern of a saltire cross angle, creating four segments between each arm of the cross. Within each segment is a raised pellet, about 3 mm in diameter, and in the centre and on the end of each arm of the cross. There is also a raised border around the edge of the button. There is an integral lead shank on the back which is now bent but would have originally formed a loop to attach the button to a coat or thick material. There is also a casting seam as a ridge running across the diameter of the back of the bu…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd June 2016
Last updated: Thursday 23rd June 2016
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Record ID: CORN-E0AE41
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead button, circular in plan and plano-convex in profile, with a moulded fleurette with eight petals surrounding the central corolla of the flower, backed by a further wider eight petals which extend to the edge of the button. The back of the button is missing its integral looped shank, which may have been rectangular in profile, judging by the comparanda below and the marks left on the back. Read (2005) illustrates a similar large lead button with a six-petalled flower with pellets between the petals and an integral attachment loop on the back on page 64, no.248, which is da…
Created on: Wednesday 13th April 2016
Last updated: Thursday 14th April 2016
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Record ID: CORN-D82E22
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead button, circular in plan and plano-convex in profile, with a raised pattern of a saltire cross over another cross at a 45 degree angle, creating eight segments between each arm of the cross. Within each segment is a raised pellet, about 2 mm in diameter, and on each arm of both crosses, there is also a raised pellet half way along the arm. There is also a raised border around the edge of the button. The remnant of a circular section iron shank on the back would have originally formed a loop to attach the button to a coat or thick material. There is iron corrosion produce on …
Created on: Wednesday 13th April 2016
Last updated: Thursday 14th April 2016
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Record ID: CORN-16511E
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast pewter flat one-piece button with the base of an integral undrilled shank that is 2 mm in diameter on the back. The upper face of the button is decorated with ring of eighteen raised pellets as a border around a plain, slightly domed interior. Read (2005) illustrates a very similar small lead alloy button with a border of eighteen raised pellets from South-East Dorset, on page 100, no.393, which is dated from the 15th century. Egan & Pritchard (2002) illustrate a flat lead alloy button with a similar border of pellets, and a shank with a loop on a stem, on page 275, fig.178…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd March 2016
Last updated: Monday 24th June 2019
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Record ID: CORN-34E863
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy discoidal domed button, circular in plan and 11.4 mm in diameter, with a convex front and flat back with an integral drilled shank that is 9 mm long. The aperture of the simple looped shank is 3 mm in diameter. Read (2005) illustrates a similar plain button on page 60, no.227, which is dated from the 16th century. Bailey (2004) illustrates a small Tudor button with a similar profile and attachment loop on page 23, fig.7.6, which is dated from the late 15th century to the 16th century.
Created on: Friday 18th December 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 6th January 2016
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Record ID: CORN-34DCBB
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy composite three-piece button with a separate drawn iron wire shank or attachment loop. The upper surface is domed and is decorated with an incised pattern made of four intersecting pairs of arcs resulting in a design similar to a Canterbury cross, although lacking the square at the centre of the cross. The resulting 'flared' arms of the cross have been further decorated by the incision of nested V shapes within each arm of the cross. The surface bears traces of possible gilding. The reverse of the button is flat and is pitted with corrosion and the rusted remains o…
Created on: Friday 18th December 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 6th January 2016
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Record ID: CORN-34D424
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver-plated copper alloy dandy button dating from the 18th century, 34 mm in diameter, 1 mm thick and weight 7.49 g. The button is decorated with a circle of 14 raised dots, each about 1.5 mm in diameter, about half-way between the circumference and the centre point; the dots have been punched into the metal from the opposite side. Otherwise there is no pattern on either surface of the button. The front face, with the raised dots, has been silvered; the silver coating is largely intact apart from having been rubbed away on the surfaces of the 14 dots and for around 0.5 mm around t…
Created on: Friday 18th December 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 6th January 2016
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Record ID: CORN-73E484
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy solid one-piece button, circular in plan and bi-convex in profile, that is 12.4 mm in diameter and 11 mm in height, with an integral attachment loop. The attachment loop is 9 mm long with a flat stem and loop, 2 mm thick, and a circular hole that is 3 mm in diameter. The button is undecorated. Late Medieval to Early Post-medieval c.1450-1600. Read (2005) illustrates similar buttons on page 51, nos.174-179, which are dated from the late 15th to the 16th century. Bailey (2004) illustrates similar buttons on page 29, figs.7.36-7.39, which are dated from the lat…
Created on: Saturday 14th November 2015
Last updated: Sunday 15th November 2015
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Record ID: CORN-D4D13F
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast lead alloy button, circular in plan and domed in profile, with a central raised pellet with nine spokes emanating from it, which terminate in a circular border that runs around the edge of the button, to create the appearance of a wheel. Between each spoke is a single pellet, just within the circular border. The back of the button has a moulded line that crosses the diameter of the button which is the base of what was probably a simple looped shank in the centre. Read (2005) illustrates a similar solid lead alloy button on page 101, no.398, which is dated from the 1…
Created on: Friday 26th June 2015
Last updated: Monday 29th June 2015
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Record ID: CORN-93141A
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Die-stamped copper alloy two-piece hollow conical button with a domed hemishere soldered on to a separate back plate with an integral attachment loop.The loop or shank is D-shaped in profile and circular in section. The cone has a decorated border of stamped squares within two parallel lines that run around the circumference of the base. Above this is another band of decoration, but it is not clear, because of the corrosion, if it is a line of circular stamps. At the apex of the cone is a single incised pellet. Bailey (2004) illustrates a similar example with a decorated border in …
Created on: Tuesday 23rd June 2015
Last updated: Thursday 25th June 2015
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Record ID: CORN-72B109
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy button or mount with a pattern of raised dots within lozenges and a border of triangles on the upper face. The back of the button has an area where the surface metal has been removed in the centre, where the attachment loop has been pulled off, as well as in two arms off the central roundel, which could be where the mount was attached to a frame, edge or strap. The original surface has mostly corroded away and there are raised areas of corrosion which do not represent the full thickness of the button. Bailey (2004) illustrates a dandy button with a similar foliate patt…
Created on: Thursday 28th May 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 18th August 2015
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Record ID: CORN-FC7638
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver-plated copper alloy solid, die-cut, two-piece livery button depicting the design of a wolf passant proper standing on a 'torse' or twisted roll of fabric laid at the base of the crest. Above the wolf is a banner with the motto: 'SERMONI CONSONA FACTA' in Latin which translates to 'Deeds agreeing with words'. This crest and motto are associated with the Trelawny family of Trelawne, Pelynt in Cornwall (Pascoe, 108). These mottos were not used until the late 17th to the 18th century, and the style and manufacture of the button suggest that it is 19th century in date, but there is …
Created on: Thursday 16th April 2015
Last updated: Friday 17th April 2015
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Record ID: CORN-C7B472
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Solid cast tin button, circular in plan and plano-convex in profile, with a square attachment loop. The face of the button is quite corroded so that it is difficult to make out the decoration, but there is a slight central knop and three concentric circles between the centre and the edge of the button. There also appear to be some lines radiating from the centre across the circles to the edge. The loop is stepped at each outer edge which could be the result of damage, but both sections are neat and at right angles, appearing to have been deliberate, perhaps helping to grip on to this …
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Sunday 26th April 2020
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