Buttons Collection (#4)

Two Italian policemen, 1922. Artist: Donald McLeish
Two Italian policemen, 1922. Stalwarts of Italys highly efficient police force. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume IV: Georgia to Italy

Sir Robert Shore Milnes, late 18th-early 19th century (1910). Artist: George Romney
Sir Robert Shore Milnes, late 18th-early 19th century (1910). Milnes was Lieutenant Governor of Lower Canada from 1799 to 1805. Illustration from The Connoisseur (August 1910)

Torpedo Gunners Mate, 1937. Artist: WA & AC Churchman
Torpedo Gunners Mate, 1937. Churchmans Cigarette Series, The Navy At Work

Duke Peter Frederick of Oldenburg, 1908. Artist: WD & HO Wills
Duke Peter Frederick of Oldenburg, 1908. Portraits of European Royalty, Willss Cigarette Cards, Bristol & London

H. R. H Prince Christopher of Greece, 1908. Artist: WD & HO Wills
H.R.H Prince Christopher of Greece, 1908. Portraits of European Royalty, Willss Cigarette Cards, Bristol & London

Edward Baines, English newspaper-proprietor and politician

Buckles and Buttons: I am the thing, dem-me, 1777. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse

Steel Buttons, Coup de Bouton, 1777. A woman with an elaborate hairstyle is dazzled by extremely shiny buttons on a mans coat. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century

General PGT Beauregard, Confederate Army general, 1862-1867. As commander of the forces in Charleston, South Carolina, Beauregard (1818-1893)

Policemen, Rotterdam, 1898. Artist: James Batkin
Policemen, Rotterdam, 1898. Illustration from a book of photographs taken in Holland and Belgium by James Batkin, (1898)

Wesley Merritt, Union Army general, 1862-1867. Artist: J Rogers
Wesley Merritt, Union Army general, 1862-1867. Merritt (1834-1910) was a noted cavalry commander during the Civil War. He later commanded the 9th Cavalry on the western frontier

General Maurice Sarrail, Allied commander in Greece during World War I, (1926). Sarrail (1856-1929) commanded the French 3rd Army on the Western Front from August 1914

Major-General ETH Hutton, commanding 1st Mounted Infantry Brigade, South Africa, 1902. Artist: Bassano Studio
Major-General Edward Thomas Henry Hutton, commanding 1st Mounted Infantry Brigade, South Africa, 1902. Hutton (1848-1923) went on to be the first organiser of the Australian Army

Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) as a grammar school pupil, Simbirsk, Russia, 1879
Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) as grammar school pupil, Simbirsk, Russia, 1887. Lenin (1870-1924) became leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic and Labour Party in 1903

A Man with a Double Sack, c1725-1778. Artist: Francois Duparc
A Man with a Double Sack, c1725-1778. Found in the collection of the Musee de Longchamps, Marseilles

Button Maker, 1823. Stamping out metal buttons. A blank is held in place and a weight holding the die for the pattern being worked is raised by a rope and pulley wheel and dropped onto the blank

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, American soldier, 1863. Beauregard (1813-1893) served as a general in the Confederate army in the American Civil War

Braxton Bragg, American soldier. Bragg (1817-1876) was a general in the Confederate (southern) army during the American Civil War

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