Boxes

Artist Glace Byron Reversible Collar Company

Dateca. 1861

Terms

Boxes
Pasteboard
Boston

Dimensions5.08 × 10.15 cm (2 × 4 in.)

Markings"Antique Buttons From the Home of Major James Barrett in Concord, Mass., 1861." C.E. Davis. One button has a label attached: "Bull Run". (Inventory 2005 found label but no longer attached to appropriate button.) Inscribed under top "Henry Shattuck, 1867".

Credit LineGift of Cummings E. Davis (1886)

Object numberPER2065

DescriptionRound, blue pasteboard box for men's collars. Contains a collection of 81 miscellaneous antique buttons. In light blue pasteboard collar box, 4 1/4" dia. Many are military buttons but not all. Some appear to be female's buttons. Also some misc. objects like nails, what appears to be a cat tooth, etc.