Buttons & Fasteners 500 BC-AD 1840

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Knapper har vært brukt i 2500 år. Identifiser og dater dine spesielle knappefunn ved hjelp av denne boken. Over 1000 bilder/illustrasjoner. 113 sider. 19 x 25 cm. Av Gordon Bailey. Engelsk tekst. ----- Buttons & Fasteners 500 BC - AD 1840 Buttons are now part of our daily lives, but few people realise they have a history stretching back over 2,500 years with buttons being used in the late Bronze Age and the Celts using bronze cloak toggles even before the Roman Invasion of Britain in AD 43. Containing over 1,000 high quality colour photographs, this book allows the identification and dating of metal buttons through many periods of history. Many of the buttons covered are excavated examples, and quite a number are rare and previously unrecorded varieties. Show more