![]() ![]() The population was less than 5 million peoples. A financial depression in the country had reduced trade there considerably since the beginning of 1914. Varieties imported included MOP, ivory nut, horn, papier-maché, metal and bone, especially cheaper grades. ![]() Buttons were imported from Germany, France and Italy with pearl buttons coming from Japan. There was practically no local button manufacture. Most buttons were imported from France duty free.Īn article on Eritrea’s industries published in 1946 noted that glass making, including buttons, was a new industry at that time. In Madagascar ordinary white bone buttons were used on all kinds of garments. There were very few white women in the Kongo, and “the native women generally use pins as fasteners.” The Arab populations did not use buttons on “their native garb.” In Libya the presence of Italian garrisons provided a market for buttons. A few brown bone buttons for khaki coats and common bone trouser buttons were also used. In the Kongo pearl buttons were used “on the white duck coats which are worn almost exclusively”. Buttons were imported for resident Europeans’ use, mainly pearl, cloth, bone, and metal from Austria, Germany and Italy. The buttons were re-exported from the mother countries of each colony. Information from the ‘Department of Commerce of USA, Special Consular Reports, Foreign Trade in Buttons: 1st April 1916 Department of Commerce of USA, Special Consular reports, Foreign Trade in Buttons: 1st April 1916.‘Reports of artisans / selected by a committee appointed by the council of the society of arts to visit the Paris Universal Exhibition, 1867.’. ![]()
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