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Button

Collection Type

  • Clothing and accessories

Date

1890-1930

GUSN

GUSN-23910

Description

Round porcelain button with a white ground printed with promotional design of a spoked bicycle wheel in shades of grey and black with an interlaced yellow ribbon inscribed in block font, "AMESBURY CYCLES".

Details

Descriptive Terms

buttons (fasteners)
accessories
printing (process)
porcelain
wheels (components)
Button, Promotional
Porcelain
Painted
Wheel
Button, Promotional

Inscription

Stamped on back: ""O'HARA DIAL CO/ WALTHAM, MASS.""

Associated Building

Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),

Maker

O'Hara Dial Co. (Maker)

Location of Origin

Waltham, MA, USA

Dimensions

0.25 (H), 0.875 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker

Accession Number

1998.4866

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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