2 in ANTIQUE PIC BUTTON PIED PIPER OF HAMLIN RATS LOTS GOLD SILVER MOON BBB MINT

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2 in ANTIQUE PIC BUTTON PIED PIPER OF HAMLIN RATS LOTS GOLD SILVER MOON BBB MINT:
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XXL 2 INCHES ANTIQUE STORYBOOK PICTURE BUTTON OF \"THE PIED PIPER OF HAMLIN.\" THIS IS THE BEST MOST BEAUTIFUL STORYBOOK PICTURE BUTTON I\'VE SEEN TO DATE. THE FEATURES ARE RAISED AND COVERED IN SHIMMERY GOLD GILT LUSTER (SO MUCH BETTER IN PERSON) AND THIS PARTICULAR BUTTON HAS A WHITE METAL MOON, SO IT LOOKS LIKE THE SILVER MOON SHIMMERING THROUGH THE NIGHT MAKING ALL THE GOLD REFLECT IN THE MOONLIGHT. IT\'S CLEAN, PERFECT. YOU CAN SEE ALL THE FEATURES SUCH AS THE HOUSES IN THE DISTANCE, THE BRICKS, THE WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE AND ALL THE RATS AROUND HIS FEET.

IT\'S A BIG 2 INCHES (51mm). IT\'S BRASS WITH METAL BORDER AND METAL JAPPANED BACK SIDE. VERY CLEAN BUTTON AND HAS BEEN WELL TAKEN CARE OF. Note: there is a \"rough\" spot at 5:00 on the metal border. I don\'t think it deters from the button at all.

THIS BUTTON IS LISTED IN THE BIG BOOK OF BUTTONS AS Plate 199 # 15 and written as follows:
THE PIED PIPER OF HAMLIN from the poem by Browning based upon a traditional tale. This is the most handsome of several versions having piper and rats applied to the stamped brass background scene of the town of Hamlin and a steel moon showing through the cut out background. White metal collet, steel back and wire shank.
TRUE STORY OF THE PIED PIPER OF HAMLIN
The story generally goes that the town of Hamelin was plagued by an unusual number of rats, and a stranger from out of town, wearing multicolored (or “pied”) clothes, showed up and offered to get rid of the rats in exchange for payment. The stranger then produced a flute or pipe and began playing a tune, at which time all the rats in town followed him out through the gates of the city and either to a nearby mountain or into the river, depending upon which version you encounter.

When the townsfolk saw how easily the piper had rid the town of rats, they regretted the amount that they had offered him and reneged on their deal. The piper vowed revenge, and later—according to one Brothers Grimm account it was on June 26, 1284—he returned and once more walked through the town playing his pipe. This time, all the town’s children—130, according to one of the earliest written accounts of the event—followed him out through the town’s east gate and up to the nearby mountain which, in most accounts, opened wide to swallow them up and they disappeared, never to be seen again.

I JUST LOVE LARGE ANTIQUE PICTURE BUTTONS. THEY ALL HAVE A STORY TO TELL AND THEY\'RE SO WELL MADE. GREAT WORKMANSHIP AND THIS ONE IS A TRUE TREASURE. THIS ONE IS THE BEST I\'VE SEEN SO FAR. IT\'S AMAZING.

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