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Shirt
Buckles
Heart Shaped Shirt Buckle for Closing the Chest Opening of a Shirt
2nd Half 18th Century
Heart Shaped Shirt Buckle for Closing the Chest Opening of a Shirt
2nd Half 18th Century
Heart Shaped Shirt Buckle with Pastes (Glass Stones) for Closing the Chest Opening of a Shirt
"Shirt Buckle" excavated at Camp Security near York, Pennsylvania; a camp occupied by British
Prisoners of War during the American War for Independence. Possibly, but not necessarily, Scottish in
origin.
Heart Shaped Silver & Pastes Shirt Buckle Worn on a Recreated Linen Shirt
Note the Proper Fit of the Collar to the Neck and the Fit of the Neck Cloth
Possible
Shirt Buckle
45 Buckles
John Wilkes & Liberty !
The Smaller Buckle May have been used to Close a Shirt, but this is Conjecture
c. 1763
(The British Museum)
Brigadier General Otho Holland Williams wearing a Heart Shaped Shirt Buckle
by Charles Wilson Peale
Master & Lieutenant William Bligh of the H.M.S. Resolution, Later Captain of the H.M.S. Bounty, Wearing a Masonic Shirt Buckle
by John Webber 1776
(National Portrait Gallery, Canberra)
Gold
Sleeve Buttons
American Gold Sleeve Buttons from Boston, Massachusetts, on a Childs Linen Shirt
c. 1764
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Silver
Sleeve Buttons
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)
Sleeve Buttons Recovered from the Wreck of a Mercantile Ship Bound for Philadelphia
Sunk off Lewes Beach, Delaware c. 1762 - 1775
(State of Delaware)
TALLIO
Sporting
Sleeve Buttons
Royal
Commemorative
Sleeve Buttons
English Dual Hearts and Clasped Hands Sleeve Button Marked Fide et Amore (By Faith and Love)
Recovered in the Thames River
Possibly Made to Commemorate the Marriage of King George III and Queen Charlotte in 1761
(Mike Walker & London Mudlark)
English Crown & Double Hearts Sleeve Button Recovered at Fort Ticonderoga
Motif Commemorating the Marriage & Coronation of King George III and Queen Charlotte in 1761
(Fort Ticonderoga)
English Copper Alloy Crown & Double Hearts Sleeve Button Recovered at the Sanders Point Excavation Site
Motif Commemorating the Marriage & Coronation of King George III and Queen Charlotte in 1761
(Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum - State Museum of Archeology - Diagnostic Artifacts in Maryland Website)
English Crown & Double Hearts Silver Commemoration Medal to Show as a Comparison
Commemorating the Marriage of King George III and Queen Charlotte in 1761
(Fitzwilliam Museum)
Silver & Paste Sleeve Buttons Recovered in Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
c. 1780
(Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology)
Paste Sleeve Buttons Owned by Captain John Parker, Commander of the Lexington Militia at the Battle of Lexington
(Lexington Historical Society - Photo by Alex Cain)
Detail of Metal & Opaque Black Glass Sleeve Buttons: Dr. Joseph Warren
by John Singleton Copley c. 1765
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Detail of Metal & Opaque Black Glass Sleeve Buttons: Dr. Joseph Warren
by John Singleton Copley c. 1765
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Recreated Sleeve Silver & Opaque Black Glass Sleeve Buttons made by William Hettinger III and Tailoring by Neal Hurst
Note the Tight Fit of the Sleeve and Cuff, Typical of Fashion in the 1770s
Military
Sleeve Buttons
IRISH VOLUNTEER
Sleeve Button
BRITISH VOLUNTEER
Sleeve Button
Glass LIBERTY Sleeve Button Insert Excavated at Fort Montgomery along the Hudson River in New York
Built by the Continentals in 1776 & Captured & Burned by the British in 1777
(Fort Montgomery)
Mixed
Sleeve Buttons
Shirt Buttons Recovered from the Ephraim Sprague House Archeological Site in Lebanon, Connecticut
c. 1750
(State of Connecticut)
Sleeve Buttons
18th Century
(Ward Oles Collection)
Sleeve Buttons
18th Century
(Ward Oles Collection)
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