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ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN
Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

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Explore the database of all the people associated with the Pitt Rivers English collections. This gives information about their lives; their education, careers, place of residence, and their network of friends and colleagues. Select the first letter of their surname from the list below.

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Firmin and Sons

Career Manufacturer

Biography Button-makers, now manufacturers and suppliers of all requirements for state and ceremonial occasions. Then based in The Strand, London, now based in Birmingham [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 26/04/2007]

Biography References http://www.firmin.co.uk/ / http://www.firmin.co.uk/history.html / http://www.oldcopper.org/button_makers.htm / http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/pages/button-makers.html#anchora

County London [Greater]

Relationship Maker

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1945

Date made around circa 1850-1900

Dates active 1677-to present

Donated around 1945

English collections Livery buttons

Institution Yes

Oxford based No

English collection size 39

Connections William Horace Boscawen Somerset / Powys family

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