Ethiopian woman’s head button (this is according to the Big Book of Buttons) but I've also heard her called Hawaiian Queen, Lydia Liliuokalani
Molded black glass, set with 2 brilliants and cemented to a flat, milk glass background the button is large size, antique and has a metal rosette shank
I have found NEW information in the May 1997 issue of the National Button Society Bulletin the above image is called "The
Blackamoor" and can be used as a fable buttonMolded black glass, set with 2 brilliants and cemented to a flat, milk glass background the button is large size, antique and has a metal rosette shank
“The button familiar to us as “The
Blackamoor” can now be used with fable buttons. The fable is The AEthiop, page
91 in the AEsop Fable Collection. It goes as follows:
The purchaser of a black servant was
persuaded that the color of his skin arose from dirt contacted through the
neglect of his former masters. On bringing him home, he resorted to every means
of cleaning, and subjected the man to incessant scrubbings. The servant caught a
severe cold, but he never changed his color or complexion.
Moral: What’s bred in the bone will stick to
the flesh”
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