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Set of Twelve Square Shank Buttons — Cream/Greenish with Gold-Tone Accents
Object/Artifact
Twelve molded plastic shank buttons in a rounded-square (“cushion”/squircle) form with a raised square central panel surrounded by a channeled border, crossed at top and bottom by paired gold-tone bars that read as a stylized buckle or strap-and-ring motif. The body is an opaque cream/ivory plastic with a distinctly cool, slightly greenish cast. The gold-tone elements are inlaid metallic strips (or metallized plastic) set into molded channels. The reverse is gold-tone (metallic-finished), molded with a raised central self-shank pierced for thread and impressed with four small diamond/lozenge marks arranged around the shank — a decorative or registration feature of the mold. The construction (molded plastic face with applied gold-tone trim and an integral self-shank, gold-finished reverse) is consistent with mid-to-late-twentieth-century decorative garment buttons of the kind distributed through haberdashery channels, including the Soviet-bloc imports that supplied Cuban mercerías.
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Belonged to Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez
Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez collecition
The Cabrera Arús family collection
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Maker/Attribution: Unknown; no maker’s mark present. Construction consistent with mid-to-late-twentieth-century European commercial button production (Eastern or Western Europe). Date: Circa 1960s–1980s (tentative). Place: Unknown; likely European import (tentative).
Twelve buttons, all of one matching design and color.
Plastic
Good
Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez
Owner
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
Acquisition, use