Invoice copy: page 22 from a button order book, 21.2.1942
Carbon-copy of an invoice from a blue, marbled, hardcover, ‘Rymans’ duplicate book

The wartime button-making venture at Albion Mews is represented in 20 duplicate books from the years 1941-51 containing invoice copies for orders (2002.26.547-66). Most of these orders are briefly specified by quantities and pattern names such as Toronto or Knots. However some of these carbon records include schematic sketches describing unusual orders. For example a page dated 21.2.42 with ‘Worth’ underlined at the top includes a mnemonic sketch for a buckle design . The button business grew out of the work Lucie Rie did pressing glass buttons for Bimini, a manufactory established by fellow émigré and old acquaintance Fritz Lampl.

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