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Posted By: wwh basket buttons - 10/23/03 03:42 PM
"But when the pea-coat, cap, and comforter lifted themselves up again, Florence gently moved towards them; and she and Walter taking them off, disclosed the old Instrument-maker, a little thinner and more careworn than of old, in his old Welsh wig and his old coffee-coloured coat and basket buttons, with his old infallible chronometer ticking away in his pocket.

I can remember having a leather coat that had buttons with a steel disk, over which there was a web of leather strips a quarter of an inch wide woven like basket work. But I never heard them so called.

Posted By: Wordwind Re: basket buttons - 10/25/03 02:00 AM
This sounds like something for Helen. Where art thou, oh, Troy?

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