1” Yellow Silk Death Head Buttons
$5.00
Made in the USA
Death head buttons were used on men’s coats & waistcoats throughout the 18th & into the early 19th century. They were used on everyday business attire not for best dress. These death head buttons are a good size for a coat & hand made on a wood blank of silk thread. Since these are hand made there may be a bit of a wait before we ship.
We do not know where the name came from. There are many theories. Read about them & learn to make your own with “Death Head” buttons their use and construction. In
The Virginia Gazette of 1774, “RUN away . . . a Scotchman . . . He had on . . . a Newmarket coat of light bath coating, not bound, but stitched on the edges, with death head buttons on it”.
100 in stock
