This button is part of the Luckock Collection. Over 500 buttons collected by James Luckock, a jeweller and button maker in St Paul's Square, Birmingham in the 1780s. Dating from between around 1770 and 1830, they were made at a period when Birmingham buttons had an international reputation.The Luckcock Collection is almost entirely composed of buttons made to be worn on men's coats or waistcoats. This mother-of-pearl button is carved with a ring of small bosses surrounding a central larger boss. It is further decorated with green pigment, and has a drilled brass swaged-in shank.