Three-part flat bottomed mold of cast brass with cut-outs for four buttons.
molds (shaping tools)
buttons (fasteners)
brass (alloy)
casting (process)
riveting
Brass
Riveted
MOLD, BUTTON
Stamped on flat surface: ""I M"". NFL tag says: ""Joseph Miller / Wd stk Ct. / Mold maker c.1765.""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Miller, Joseph (Maker)
Woodstock, CT, USA
0.75 x 1 x 5.75 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.247
Connecticut (United States)
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