Fox and Crow, Earlyish 20th C. Brass Fable Button antique carved animals just of a piece with

just of a piece with it

with its original pair of design cards inside

and I thought it was pretty beautiful

he (I think) looks very much of the elusive

Fox and Crow, Earlyish 20th C. Brass Fable Button antique carved animals just of a piece withI don't typically buy and sell buttons, but I found this one a month or two in a shop from which I was also buying some extraordinary early embroidered trim, and just liked it perhaps especially for the fable of the fox and crow it illustrates: a warning against being vulnerable to flattery, which seems particularly relevant these days and especially apt communicated via a shiny object! Maybe the perfect if not so subtle gift for one's dear but too