🪡Thread for late 19th-early 20th C. button identification, emphasis on diff. synthetics and organics. Dates for US contexts.
#archaeology #button #materialculture
1/? 2/? HARD RUBBER

Sturdy synthetic. Generally has Goodyear backstamp; less commonly Novelty Rubber Co. or unmarked. Smells like rubber when heated. Molded.

Color: matte black; rarely brown. Opaque.

Date: post-1851.

@MuseumLiverpool 1/13
The coarse earthenware pottery made in Liverpool during 18th C. looks a lot like pottery made elsewhere, but recent ID via elemental analysis shows that it reached plantations across the Atlantic, used for sugar refining and in the home.
Woodcut 1574 Jost Amman
#ArchMol21 @MuseumLiverpool 2/13
The abundant #pottery clay in the region led to a strong potting industry around Liverpool in the post-Medieval period, in places like Prescot and Rainford. Excavations of kiln sites show large quantities of black and brown-glazed earthenwares
#ArchMol21