✅ SOLVED Help with a button?

[WHADIFIND]

I still don't know my buttons very well. This one is pretty strange, at least for me.

Anyone recognize?





Complete, with a bit of thread. It looks like
letters on the rim but, I can't make them out.

Thanks in advance!

 

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[DCMatt]

Victorian openwork button. It looks like honeycomb. Are the letters D O N *T?


Possible a "Don't Bee Cross" button.

It may have once been backed with fabric.


Victorian women wore "perfume buttons" - openwork buttons backed with fabric.


Perfume back then was oily and irritating. Women didn't want to put it on their skin or clothing so it was dabbed onto the fabric backing the openwork buttons.

 

[WHADIFIND]

Victorian openwork button. It looks like honeycomb. Are the letters D O N *T?


Possible a "Don't Bee Cross" button.

It may have once been backed with fabric.


Victorian women wore "perfume buttons" - openwork buttons backed with fabric.


Perfume back then was oily and irritating. Women didn't want to put it on their skin or clothing so it was dabbed onto the fabric backing the openwork buttons.

Any guess would be better than mine. The logic of yours seems to fit. I really don't know.
I've looked as close as I know how to try and make what I see into letters. But, I just can't.
They may be a repetitive design involving a sort of bump in the middle of 4 other bumps.
Kind of in a square with a bump in the middle. That's as good as I can get.

All I was hoping for was that the pattern would be recognized.

Seems that you may have it, I'll leave the post as is in case anyone else wants
to weigh in before marking it solved.

Thanks for your help and the education!