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Buttons have been manufactured in Waterbury for over 200 years, first by hand, then by machine. [16] The Keep Homestead Museum in Monson, MA has "one of the largest collections of antique and vintage buttons on display in the U.S," [17] with an online archive of a number of their buttons.
Staffordshire figures began to be produced around the 1740s, or perhaps the 1730s. Initially they had little or no painted colour, typically black dots to highlight eyes, buttons, or shoes. Early subjects included genre figures of ladies and gentlemen, musicians, lovers, soldiers and the like.
Flat or sew-through buttons have holes through which thread is sewn to attach the button. [30] Flat buttons may be attached by sewing machine rather than by hand and may be used with heavy fabrics by working a thread shank to extend the height of the button above the fabric.
Phoenix buttons were designed to be used on Haitian military uniforms during the 1811-1820 reign of Henry Christophe (King Henry I of Haiti, 1811-1820). These buttons carry the image of a phoenix bird , included regimental numbers and were, “made of a good grade brass”.
'Blandford Cartwheel' button. A Dorset button is a style of craft-made button originating in the English county of Dorset.Their manufacture was at a peak between 1622 and 1850, after which they were overtaken by machine-made buttons from factories in the developing industries of Birmingham and other growing cities.
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In all processes, the outer shape of the pin is stamped out from a sheet of steel, aluminum, copper, brass, or iron. In the case of cloisonne and soft enamel, the shape and the design are stamped out. Nowadays, due to the low melting point and low price of zinc alloy, a large number of lapel pins are made of die-cast zinc alloy. [10] Cloisonné