Yes, it would have been manufactured as a two-piece with shank.

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So this is a button front converted to a sew through button?


On 5/27/2016 1:16 PM, Sandra Massey Konzak wrote:
> The Big Book of Buttons (published 1993 by Elizabeth Hughes and Marion Lester, New Leaf Publishers, Sedgwick, Maine) has a nice photo of the button, calling it "Angel on the Wall" and claiming that it was originally sold as "Angel of the House". We found one recently in a 1860s-1880s San Francisco privy.
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> Sandra Konzak
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> Hi all,
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> I’m hoping somebody can help me ID this artifact. It was recovered from a historic farmstead in Wisconsin dating between the 1850s-early 1900s. It is brass and not very flexible. The holes appear to be later punctures and not related to the manufacture of the artifact, maybe related to some sort of reuse.
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> https://www.dropbox.com/s/958u3u2v7bnm30h/Discfront.JPG?dl=0
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/yermgbvm33gf8se/Discback.JPG?dl=0
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> Thank you in advance!
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> Alex Anthony
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