Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID # |
1961.027.016 |
Object Name |
Button |
Title |
Prince of Wales' Button (19th-c) |
Lexicon category |
3: Personal Artifacts |
Date |
pre-1865 |
Year Range from |
1841 |
Year Range to |
1846 |
Artist |
Unidentified maker |
Made |
Unknown |
Place of Origin |
England, United Kingdom |
Description |
White china button reportedly from a baby coat of Edward VII. This is a glossy glazed ceramic? button [may be opaque glass]. Reportedly there were once two matching buttons. Only one exists now. There is a steel loop shank. The button is circular, and it has a rounded edge. The center of its obverse side has a convex circle. There may have once been a gilt line decoration outlining this circle. No maker's identification seen. |
Makers mark |
None |
Provenance |
Reportedly Catharine Brown Sutton of Sarawak Township, Grey County, was given two buttons from a former baby coat of the Prince of Wales (Edward VII (Albert Edward, born 9 November 1841 – died 6 May 1910)) in 1860. Queen Victoria's journal entry records the audience that she had with Nahneebahweequay (Mrs. Sutton) but does not mention any exchange of gifts. However, it seems that Mrs. Sutton had prepared or brought along some gifts for the Royal family. The two buttons were owned by Catharine B. Sutton in the 1860-1865 period. She was an Ojibwa (Anishnaabe) woman who had married an Englishman, William Sutton, in 1839, at the Credit River Mission (a Wesleyan Methodist mission that was assisting Ojibwa families). Mrs. Sutton died in September of 1865, at her log home in Sarawak Township, Grey County. The item was passed down in the family, eventually belonging to Mrs. Catherine Morgan (neé Staves) of Brantford, Ontario, who was a grand-daughter of Catharine and William Sutton. Catherine Staves was married to Reverend Alfred Morgan. Alfred Morgan was the last owner of this item. |
Collection |
First Nations, Sutton Collection |
Material |
Ceramic?/Glass? |
Dimensions |
D-1 Dia-1.4 cm |
Found |
Brantford, Ontario |
People |
Sutton, Catharine Sutton, Albert Sutton, William Morgan, Catherine Morgan, Alfred Sutton, Catherine Victoria, Queen |
Subjects |
Royalty Buttons (Fasteners) First Nations of Central Canada Babies Clothing & dress |
Search Terms |
Victorian Sarawak Township Ojibwa (Anishnaabe, Anishnibeg) |