ANTIQUE 2 RARE SILVER BUTTONS HANS BRINKER / THE SILVER SKATES Mary Mapes Dodge

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ANTIQUE 2 RARE SILVER BUTTONS HANS BRINKER / THE SILVER SKATES Mary Mapes Dodge :
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house findingsfrom 40 yearstravels aroundand about.Vintage 2 silver buttons 42mm or1 5/8 inch acrossA very fine relief image of Hans Brinker- one of him digging up his father\'s hidden money and the other of himstanding wearing silver skates. Each button is silver andtests silverof Europeanor Dutch purity and would be .800-.900 purity. Each button has a different boss to attach to clothes. One bossis brass and one is wood so likely they are both replacements. A veryrare set of silver buttons from a collection mounted oncardwith description. The total weight of both buttons is 26.6 grams or 17.0 pennyweight, not small buttons an not thin, a fine heavy detailed casting pre 1900 of European origin.

Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates (full title: HansBrinker; or, the Silver Skates: A Story of Life in Holland) is a novel byAmerican author ice-skating race Hans Brinker hopes toenter. The novel introduced the sport of Dutch Mary Mapes Dodge,who never visited the Netherlands until after the novel was published, wrotethe novel at age 34. She was inspired by her reading of [3] and Dodge notedin her preface to the 1875 edition of the book that the story of Hans Brinker\'sfather was \"founded strictly upon fact\".Charles Dickens\'[3] The novel hassince been continuously in print, most often in multiple editions and formats,and remains a children\'s classic.