Good day,

I'm sending the following request on behalf of myself and a colleague, who is helping me with the identification of buttons found at a farmstead site, dating approximately 
between the 1880s and the 1920s:

Could you please advise me on how to distinguish between jet, black glass, and bakelite buttons. How can I make a positive identification? 

Thank you very much.


Gerda Coetzee
Department of Archaeology 
National Museum 
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