Button Mold
date: label: date made
content: ca 1780 - 1800
notes: label: Description
content: Three-part, folding or "V" pattern gang mold for four different flat buttons, a small circular button with floral sprig, a small octagonal button with eight-petaled rosette, and two large octagonal buttons, one with a four-petaled rosette at center and the other with a pinwheel and eight drops. Small iron plate and two peened pins at top and small iron clasp at bottom. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Paul Remensnyder
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0939.023
label: accession number
content: 1978.0939
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0939.023
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mold, button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (mold material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (hinge plate; hinge pins; clasp material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 7 1/2 in x 1 5/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 19.05 cm x 4.1275 cm