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The pot of basil button

 isabella, or the Pot of Basil (1818) is a narrative poem by John Keats It tells the tale of a young woman sabella, or the Pot of Basil (1818) is a narrative poem by John Keats adapted from a story in Boccaccio's Decameron (IV, 5). It tells the tale of a young woman whose family intend to marry her to "some high noble and his olive trees", but who falls for Lorenzo, one of her brothers' employees. When the brothers learn of this, they murder Lorenzo and bury his body. His ghost informs Isabella in a dream. She exhumes the body and buries the head in a pot of basil which she tends obsessively, while pining away. 

antique metal button

 

THE LITTLE TAILOR , or NINE WITH ONE BLOW button

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VERY scarce and rare 

 THE LITTLE TAILOR , or NINE WITH ONE BLOW button from the nursery tale in which the little Tailor tells everyone that he killed "nine at one blow" when the nine were really flies. The brass figure and fly are applied to a one piece,textured brass background The rim is attached to the background by short bars, leaving a space open at the side all away around

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