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A tree with a high picket fence replaces the grasses on the left, there is nothing on the ground in the foreground, there is less of the scene pictured on the right of the fox, and the fox has his left paw on the first step of a simple ladder leading toward the grapes. BBB Plate 154, #20, which says that the button was reproduced in the 1950's.

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The same in motif motif as the Gotbuttons larger button with these differences: this is brass, smaller, and marked with "Solidaire Bte SGDG" rather than "Breveté" on the back. The metal of this button shows less relief than that of others I have, and the button is thus considerably brighter. This button has the same construction as that, including the self-shank. This specimen seems to be that presented as #11 on Plate 152 of BBB.

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The same scene as in the 1.5" Joyce's Jems large button. Apparently they were meant to be used together. The buttons seem to have a circle of metal shaped around the hook-bearing metallic or celluloid base.

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This button again takes a different artistic conception of the theme. It can be hard to read except up very close, partially because of its smaller size. BBB Plate 154 #19, which says of it "The well defined brass design is cut out and mounted over a background of grey pearl; tinned steel back and brass wire shank" (378). The BBB illustration may actually show the button upside-down, since it ends up with the grapes below the fox!

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This button, by contrast with the Monleón exemplars, puts the fox on the lower right and the crow in the upper left. Tree branches shape the scene--and even make it hard to read on this small button! Closest in design to the larger button pictured in BBB on Plate 154 as #6. Like it, this button has a brass back and a self-shank.

Abstract The conception of the scene seems slightly different here from both the 1" and the 3/4" FS versions. The defining line at the bottom of the scene is higher. The strong set of defining masses at the lower right seems to have been lost. It is not as clear that the fox grasps the neck of the vase. The fox sits back here, and the stork is well removed from the button's right rim. The whole rim has a copper hue. As with the other exemplars of this scene, that copper-colored band seems to be...

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This is a pressed, one-piece silvered brass button in fair to good condition. Like the larger Wiedeman exemplar of the same scene but less distinct, this button adapts Doré's illustration of La Fontaine's V 3 ("Le petit Poisson et le Pêcheur") well to the circular form. In fact, even the backs of the two buttons are remarkably similar.

Abstract This is perhaps the simplest of the buttons I have found. Until the Goldbarg offer, I did not know that this scene found its way onto a button. Almost the full top half of the button's circle is simple darkness. In addition to the dog and the lunch, there is only the raised ground beneath the animal. The button seems to have been constructed of the scene proper and a standard brass backing with a self-shank. BBB Plate 154 #29. In the Larner exemplar, this scene is, as BBB describes, "all...