The Fox and the Stork Bracelet - Once Upon a Button Limited Edition
Regular price $115.00This uncommonly interesting and attractive bracelet flaunts three renditions of Aesop's fable, The Fox and the Stork, intricately depicted on Victorian-era picture buttons.
In this fable, the fox amuses himself by inviting the stork to dinner and serving the meal in a shallow dish that, due to her long neck, the stork cannot eat from. To retaliate, she returns the invitation and serves the fox a meal in a long-necked vessel from which he can't eat. This angers the fox and is a moral lesson about treating others as you would like to be treated.
Motifs for Victorian-era picture buttons were taken from every possible source, including contemporary illustrations, photographs, and advertising. Their subject matter reflects the divergent obsessions of affluent Victorians.
Read more: Once Upon a Time - Victorian-Era Picture Buttons, Buttonology Blog.
The center button in this bracelet is a unique collectible known as a Paris back. This is a term collectors use to describe two-part brass buttons with the word Paris and the manufacturer's name stamped on the back.
In this piece:
- Three Victorian brass buttons of The Fox and the Stork, circa 1880-1890, with center one backmarked Paris
- Small stamped brass button at end of extender chain
- Three brass-plated pewter settings cast today in the USA
- Stamped brass filigrees and filigree balls made in the USA in vintage dies
- Antiqued brass chain
- Length is 7” to 8 ¾”
Shop Collection: Limited Edition
