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Set of hunting buttons

Applied Arts
Inventory number
2022.6.13.27ab.AA.TX.C1900.FR
Description
Set of 2 tin buttons representing heads of hunting games, one is depicting a stag, the other a wolf.

Tin buttons appeared during the Second French Empire, and hunting with hounds buttons were popular among the little and high bourgeoisie in the second half of the 19th century. 
Materials
Tin
Metal
Origin
circa 1900 France
Dimensions
Width : 1 cm
Length : 5.842 cm
Height : 5.842 cm