Male Dress - Shirt Buttons I PDF

18th Century Material Culture
Shirt / Sleeve Buttons I

Recreated 18th Century Shirt & Suit by Neal Hurst
Recreated Silver & Black Glass Sleeve Buttons by William Hettinger III
(Photo Courtesy Neal Hurst)
Paired Shirt Buttons to Close the Neck - “Etow Oh Koam" - King of the River Nations in North America
Painted on His Visit to England by Bernard Lens III 1710
(The British Museum)
Gold
Sleeve Buttons
American Gold Sleeve Buttons from Boston, Massachusetts
c. 1720 - 1750
(Winterthur)
by James Butler c. 1751 - 1776
(Winterthur)
by James Butler c. 1751 - 1776
(Winterthur)
American Gold Sleeve Buttons from Exeter, Rhode Island
by Samuel Casey c. 1750
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
c. 1750
American Gold Sleeve Buttons from Boston, Massachusetts, on a Child’s Linen Shirt
c. 1764
American Gold Sleeve Buttons from Newport, Rhode Island
Probably by Jonathan Clark (1705 - 1770) c. 1740
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)
American Gold Sleeve Buttons from Newport, Rhode Island
by Daniel Rogers c. 1770 - 1792
by William Simpkins c. 1750
by Jonathan Otis c. 1745 - 1770
(Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)
Silver
Sleeve Buttons
English Silver Alloy Sleeve Button
Late 17th Century
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / Colchester Museums)
English Silver Alloy Gas Back Sleeve Buttons
Late 17th Century
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / Norfolk County Council)
Late 17th Century
Late 17th Century
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / Somerset County Council)
Late 17th Century
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / The British Museum)
Late 17th Century
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / Surrey County Council)
English Silver Alloy Sleeve Buttons
Late 17th Century
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / Museum of London)
c. 1650 - 1720
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service)
Late 17th Century
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / Sussex Archaeological Society)
English Silver Alloy Sleeve Button or Button
Late 17th Century - Early 18th Century
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / Somerset County Council )
c. 1650 - 1720
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / Northamptonshire County Council)
c. 1725 - 1800
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / Isle of Wight Council)
c. 1700 - 1800
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / Birmingham Museums Trust)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
c. 1725 - 1800
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / Sussex Archaeological Society)
c. 1700 - 1800
c. 1725 - 1800
c. 1725 - 1800
c. 1700 - 1800
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / Bristol City Council)
Late 17th - Mid 18th Century
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / Winchester Museum Service)
c. 1750 - 1800
c. 1700 - 1800
c. 1725 - 1800
18th Century
(Museum of London)
c. 1725 - 1800
c. 1725 - 1800
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / Cambridgeshire County Council )
c. 1725 - 1800
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / Mike Walker)
c. 1725 - 1800
c. 1725 - 1800
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service)
c. 1725 - 1800
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service)
c. 1725 - 1800
c. 1725 - 1800
c. 1720 - 1800
c. 1720 - 1800
c. 1720 - 1800
c. 1720 - 1800
c. 1720 - 1800
c. 1720 - 1800
c. 1720 - 1800
c. 1720 - 1800
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / Suffolk County Council)
c. 1725 - 1800
c. 1725 - 1800
c. 1725 - 1800
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / Leicestershire County Council)
c. 1725 - 1800
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum )
c. 1725 - 1800
c. 1725 - 1800
c. 1725 - 1800
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / Sussex Archaeological Society )
c. 1725 - 1800
c. 1725 - 1800
c. 1725 - 1800
c. 1725 - 1800
18th Century
(Museum of London)
c. 1770 - 1800
(Winterthur)
English Silver & Steel Alloy Sleeve Buttons
c. 1725 - 1800
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / : North Lincolnshire Museum)
c. 1725 - 1800
c. 1725 - 1800
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
American Silver Alloy Sleeve Button from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
by Francis Richardson c. “1700 - 1800”
(Winterthur)
Copper Alloy
Sleeve Buttons
English Copper Alloy Sleeve Button
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
English Copper Alloy Sleeve Buttons
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
English Copper Alloy Sleeve Buttons Found at the King’s Reach Archeology Site, Maryland
c. 1689 - 1711
(Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
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(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
Gilded Copper Sleeve Buttons Recovered from the Wreck of a Mercantile Ship Bound for Philadelphia
Sunk off Lewes Beach, Delaware c. 1762 - 1775
(State of Delaware)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
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18th Century (?)
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18th Century
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18th Century
(Museum of London)
c. 1700 - 1800
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18th Century
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18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
Sleeve Buttons Recovered from the Wreck of a Mercantile Ship Bound for Philadelphia
Sunk off Lewes Beach, Delaware c. 1762 - 1775
(State of Delaware)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
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(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
English Copper & Lead Alloy Sleeve Button
18th Century
(Museum of London)
English Copper Alloy Sleeve Buttons Found at the King’s Reach Archeology Site, Maryland
c. 1689 - 1711
(Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
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18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
English Copper & Lead Alloy Sleeve Button
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
c. 1750 - 1850
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / York Museums Trust)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
Copper Alloy Sleeve Buttons Found at Fort Dobbs, Piedmont Region, North Carolina
c. 1750
(Fort Dobbs - Photo Courtesy Scott Douglas)
c. 1600 - 1800
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / North Lincolnshire Museum)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
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(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
English Copper Alloy Sleeve Buttons Found in the Thames River
2nd Half 18th Century
(London Mudlark)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
c. 1750 - 1850
c. 1750 - 1850
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th - Early 19th Century
(Museum of London)
(Museum of London)
(Museum of London)
Late 18th - Early 19th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
Late 18th - Early 19th Century
(Museum of London)
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(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
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(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
(Museum of London)
Lead Alloy
Sleeve Buttons
English Lead Alloy Sleeve Button
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
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(Museum of London)
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(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
English Lead Alloy Sleeve Buttons
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
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(Museum of London)
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(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
18th Century
(Museum of London)
Tin Alloy
Sleeve Buttons
English Tin Alloy Sleeve Buttons
c. 1725 - 1800
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / York Museums Trust )
English Silvered Tin Alloy Sleeve Buttons
c. 1750 - 1800
(Portable Antiquities Scheme / Birmingham Museums Trust )
Acknowledgements
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possible. We would like to personally thank and recognize Paul
Dickfoss, William Hettinger III, Adam Hodges - LeClaire, Neal
Hurst, James Mullins, Ward Oles, and Steven Rayner for their
contributions to this edition.
We would like to personally thank Ward Oles for his many

contributions and suggestions to this slideshow, particularly
regarding the section of Commemorative Sleeve Buttons.
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