A Very Fine Elizabethan/Tudor Period Silver Button Modelled as a Flower sub-Curios depicting a ship whose incredible

depicting a ship whose incredible destiny was yet to be fully realised when they were painted in 1904

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A Very Fine Elizabethan/Tudor Period Silver Button Modelled as a Flower sub-Curios depicting a ship whose incredibleOrigin: English Period: Mid Late Sixteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1570 Diameter: 1. 2 cm Height 1. 7 cm The domed and chased silver button in the form of a decorative petalled flower terminating in a small head finial tip is in original condition. Considering the age of the button it remains in superb order, and is complete with loop. The button remains un cleaned presently, leaving an enviable patina. During the period this button was