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March, p 111 ORIGINAL CARD OX. SILK BUTTONS, (L.S.A., unsisned).
I'ocates "the ve.y button" not on Fortune,s cap where Shnk".p"n." ptaced
it, but on a sales' card. The button-fllled card is pictured.
lia]-, pD 141-146 THtr IIIRMINGHAM BUTTON TRADE, by John p.
Turner.
The fir sl. of thr ee instarlrnents reprinted frorn the rurner nlport of 1E 6 6.
cove.s the entire subject of button making in Bi'ningha'r, texiiies included.
lJay, p 167 WOVEN BUTTONS, A plate picturing nine needlewroughr
buttons of the Dorset type. Mistakenly headed ,,wov"n.,,
September, p 285 MAN'S DOUBLET woRN IN THE 16th C],NTURY,
!L.s.A.' unsigned). Photograph of garment in the London rluseum and
ciescription of its satin buttons.
september, pp 288-291 THII BIRMINGTTAM BUTTON TRADE, second in-
stallment.
November, pp 34b-346 FRENCH BUTTONS F.Rox{ THtr LA RUCHE CoL_
LECTION EXHIBITED BY BAILEY, GREEN & ELGER, INC., N. Y. (L.S.A.,
unsii;^ned ) . Photograph showing the lay-out of covered, crocheted and
needlework buttons on exhibit and tv'o conternporary descriptions of the
display as it appeared during the paris Exhibition ot iSeZ.
1950
IIarch, pp 72-75 TURNER REpoRT, final installment. This part contains
allnost nothing specifically about textile buttons but is listed to cornplete
the series.
\Iarch, pp 90-91 OLD WILLISTON BUTTON CONTAINER F.OUND, by c.
R. carpenter. Description of a button container with a button and a
\n'illiston label attached (iudgect to be at least a hundred years old) and
background information of the Florentine buttons rilhich it held. IlIus_
trated.
November, p 342 BUTTONS OI. SILK CORD, (L.S.A., unsigned). tour
examples illustrated and described.
November, pp 377-3Eb BUTTONS. Reprinted fron the ,,illustrated London
News" rvhich credits "The official Descriptive and Iltustrated catalogue of
the Great Exhibition, London, 18b1" for portions. parts on textile buttons
detailed and precise, though scattered.
1951
March, pp 92-95 RUTTONS. Reprinted from the "world and its work-
shops," by James ward. written in connection with the Great Exposition
of 1851. rncludes a page on x'lorentine, linen and other machine-covered
buttons.
]\iarch, p 103 BUTTONS WITH WOVEN SILK CENTERS, (L.S.A., unsigned).
Two buttons illustrated and described.
1952
NIay, pp 142-141: BENJAMIN SANDERS. Reprinted from recent issues
of the magazine "British Buttons." A brief biography of the button
manufacturer and inventor who, we find, led an adventurorrs life. A short
history of the British firm founded by sanders and now the oldest makers
of textiie buttons in the country.
May, p 152 COVERED BUTTONS WITH EMBROIDERED PRII{ITIVE
DESIGNS, (L.S.A., unsigned). A set of nine pictured and described.
IUay, p 179 ATTRACTM EMBROIDERED BUTTONS, (L.S.A., unsisned).
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Three embroidered linen buttons pictured and described.