Button Card

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Date:1875 - 1998 (c.)

Description:Button card used at Hall & Son tailors, Leamington Spa. A piece of card with 6 rows of different buttons. There are 36 buttons in total. The buttons are attached to the card with cotton thread.

The card was produced by Firmin and Sons Ltd to advertise the buttons they sold. Customers were shown the card and would choose the buttons for the clothes that they were having made at Hall & Son.

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Hall and Son (20 KB)

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1870s

Bill Head

Printed headed paper for bills from Hall & Son Tailors, Leamington Spa.

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1890s

Furniture Store's Bill

A printed and handwritten bill to Mrs Hamilton Davies from Thomas Lane and Company. ...

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1940s

Tailor & Cutter Magazine

The Tailor & Cutter 20th June 1947 Vol 82 No.4207 Pages 417 - 432 The Tailor ...

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1990s

Letter

A letter sent by T.W. Ferrers-Walker to Mr Dodd on 27 March 1990. In the letter ...

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