Context (Display)
Objects mounted with metal pins on paper-wrapped display board.
Event Date
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten in pencil on the back of the display board reads, '6. Pearl coat buttons. Cambridge. S. Cowles. 1915.231[circled]'.
Event Date 1915
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Description (Labels & Markings)
Old paper label attached on the display board reads, 'English. Early 19th century. Hand-made mother-of-pearl coat Buttons. / Mr. S.T.Cowles. / R. 1915.132'.
Event Date 1915
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Description (Physical description)
The 31st annual report (1916) for AR 1915.153-166 reads, 'Four sets of hand-made mother-of-pearl buttons for shirts & coats, English, early 19th-century.'
Event Date 11/5/1916
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Related Documents)
See 'Report on Collections Research and Cataloguing Project on Post Medieval 'To Be Disposed Of' Material' by David Kay in the arhive (Doc.474) for background information.
Event Date 2019
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Description (Physical description)
Buttons. Six buttons, three big, three smaller, hand-made of mother-of-pearl shell, mounted with thin pins on a display board.
Top to bottom, left to right:
.1: Large dark-coloured button with dented middle part with four holes.
.2: Large dark-coloured button with two holes.
.3: Large, brown and white button with dented middle part with four holes.
.4: Smaller button with two holes.
.5: Smaller white button with dented middle part with four holes.
.6: Smaller dark-coloured button with concentric lines and two holes.
Event Date 2/6/2025
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu