Button
- Object Name:
- Button
- Object ID:
- 2017.014.100
- Date:
- circa 1845
- Description:
- Pair of identical buttons. Circular. Metal rims and backs, with metal loop for thread on back. Front is mainly brown and black splotch pattern with brightly colored fragments, under clear glass covering. With note: "2 buttons ?? / coat gr.pa Cilley wore / driving tage [sic] Concord / to Portsmouth in / 1845."
- Material:
- Metal
Glass - Dimensions:
- D-0.4 Dia-1 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the Ethel Cilley Stone Collection, consisting of objects, documents, photographs, and memorabilia related to James Stone (1780-1874) and his wife Mary East Beard Stone (1791-1875) of Dunbarton; their son Captain Andrew J. Stone (1828-1864) of Dunbarton, California, etc.; Wesley Page Stone (1833-1916) and his wife Alice Patten Cilley (1849-1934) of Dunbarton; and their daughter, schoolteacher and family historian Ethel Cilley Stone (1884-1981) of Dunbarton and Goffstown.
The collection descended to Ethel Cilley Stone. After her death, the bulk of her estate passed to her minister, Rev. Graham T. Rowley (1932-2012) of Goffstown, then to his children, the donors. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Daniel T. Rowley and Elizabeth A. Rowley
- People:
- Stone, Ethel Cilley (1884-1981)
- Subjects:
- Buttons (Fasteners)
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