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A Colonial Button Mold

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Stanley J. Olsen
Stanley J. Olsen*
Affiliation:
Florida Geological Survey, Tallahassee, Florida
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Abstract

Cast-pewter civilian and military buttons are commonly recovered from Colonial habitation sites, but little has been recorded regarding the manufacture of these necessary items of apparel. A Colonial brass-button mold and its use is described and figured.

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Information
American Antiquity , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , January 1964 , pp. 389 - 390
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1964

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