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swedish coat buttons

Post by raggedroyalist » Sat Dec 20, 2014 9:38 am

Dear All

could anyone tell me what kind of buttons are on these coats

ball type with shanks?
penny shaped?
with or without shanks?


thanks Chas
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Re: swedish coat buttons

Post by janner » Mon Dec 22, 2014 5:05 pm

I suggest pm'ing Tacitus :D
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Re: swedish coat buttons

Post by Tacitus » Sat Dec 27, 2014 5:31 pm

I have a book with more detailed photos of these uniforms and judging from those photos I would say the buttons are definitely shaped more like balls than pennies. The third uniform with pocket flaps that are identical with the later Carolean uniform might have sligthly flatter semi spheric buttons. Seen from the front they all look similar but in profile the other uniforms appear to be more ball shaped than the third one. But all that might be an illusion created by the angles from which they were photographed from. It is unfortunate that I did not pay closer attention to the buttons when these uniforms were on display in the Army museum a couple of years ago.

The way they are buttoned seems to be through buttonholes and not through loops of thread (if that is what "shanks" mean). The lower part of these coats and most of the pocket flaps have however false buttonholes. Together with the accompanying buttons these were purely decorations and had no practical purpose.
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Post by raggedroyalist » Sun Dec 28, 2014 9:07 am

Thanks Tacitus,

was sent an image of a 'Spanish' button, do you think they could resemble something similar to this?
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Re: swedish coat buttons

Post by Tacitus » Sun Dec 28, 2014 4:27 pm

The fourth coat in the photo above might have that type of buttons. The other coats seem to have had buttons with smooth surfaces, although many of them appear to be dented from wear and tear. Some of them even missing the top half.

More photos off these coats can by the way be found on Digitalt Museum. These do not reveal that much about the surface of the buttons like those in my book, but they show the fourth coat with semi spherical shaped buttons similar to the "Spanish button".

http://digitaltmuseum.se/011024372884/
http://digitaltmuseum.se/011024372880/
http://digitaltmuseum.se/011024372767/
http://digitaltmuseum.se/011024372771/
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Re: swedish coat buttons

Post by raggedroyalist » Thu Jan 01, 2015 1:41 pm

Thanks for all this really useful information

Chas
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