Hi all, I worked at Buttons in warstone lane in the sixtys,as a young toolmaker it was a real eyeopener to see and use tools that were made in Victorian times, wonderfull engraving on button tools all done by hand, the combination tools which blanked/raised and pierced in one operation were incredible in their design, in fact I could probably make a set now after all this time, the carding machines were a real work of art,not that I ever operated them, to see a machine that was designed and built a hundred years ago was to me mind blowing, the top two stories of the building were never used only for storage, I would frequently have a mooch around and found a small office area where there was stored glass fronted display cabinets containing all military buttons showing Privates thru to Officers including the regiments involved, I suspect that most of those were junked. Regards Eddyjay.