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embossed dragon with leather back.
Size 3"with single shank.
Embossed leather. SI. Hubert's Hounds
is a common subject on metal buttons,
but rare in leather.
Embossed, polychrome
tinted wallpaper, padback.
Leather background. Steel Tooled, dyed and Gilt-stamped leather Painted leather. Pad back
escutcheon. Pad back. mounted in brass. mounted in tin. Paris bkmk. mounted in brass.
1. Silver with shagreen background. Unmarked, but in the manner
of John Paul Cooper, an English artist of the Arts & Crafts period.
2. Shagreen, hallmarked "Sterling" "Chester" "1898" Maker's mark: "S!,'.
3. Shagreen cinquefoil with cut steel OME.
THE NATIONAL BUTTon BULLETIN - MAY 2008
