Button Card
1980s (made)
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Card of 16 plastic buttons. Four are of brown thermoplastic moulded in imitation of leather covered buttons, four are of turned casein or nylon streaked in imitation of horn (made for Arran knitwear), four are of white nylon, and four are square buttons of brown nylon with diagonal stripes in imitation of the Gucci logogram. Three of these are with cold enamel.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Card, moulded plastic and nylon |
| Brief description | Card of 16 plastic buttons, John Templeton (Buttons) Ltd., Great Britain, 1980s |
| Physical description | Card of 16 plastic buttons. Four are of brown thermoplastic moulded in imitation of leather covered buttons, four are of turned casein or nylon streaked in imitation of horn (made for Arran knitwear), four are of white nylon, and four are square buttons of brown nylon with diagonal stripes in imitation of the Gucci logogram. Three of these are with cold enamel. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | '3198'; '3199'; '3183'; '3184'; '3201' and '3200' (Inscribed design numbers) |
| Credit line | Given by Mr and Mrs John Innell |
| Object history | Part of The Selwyn Slater Collection T.104 to 144-1984. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.126-1984 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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