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Picture No 10208240
Date 1844
Description Button Making, Elliott's Factory, Birmingham 1844
Details

A woman sits in front of a gilding oven at Elliott's Button Factory, Birmingham. The buttons are coated in a mixture of mercury and gold and then placed in the cylindrical metal cage which is placed inside the oven where the mercury evaporates.
Source Engraving
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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