Chicken Button & Tiniest Key

[Rhapsody]

Found them metal detecting a small foundation. Fun stuff. Oh yeah! Added a second pic of stuff that was in the trunk of my car when I posted (was very tired last night), enjoy!

 

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[Red-Coat]

Rosland began writing “Chantecler” in 1902, but its completion and premiere in France was delayed by illness and his obsessive perfectionist nature. The play is a satirical observation on materialism in French society and unusual in that all of the characters are farmyard animals… played by actors in costume.

Rosland took the name from the Old French “chantecler”, which had been a colloquial term for a cock or rooster with various spelling variants since about 1300 AD (modern French: “chanteclair”). It was also the name used in the Mediaeval folklore tale of “Reynard and the Fox”. Long before its association with chicken-breeding.

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, buttons were popularly themed depicting scenes or characters from opera, theatre, nursery rhymes or fables and generically grouped under those categories.

 

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[crashbandicoot]

All this chicken talk making me Hongry! KFC or Chester,s? or both?

 

[pepperj]

Rosland began writing “Chantecler” in 1902, but its completion and premiere in France was delayed by illness and his obsessive perfectionist nature. The play is a satirical observation on materialism in French society and unusual in that all of the characters are farmyard animals… played by actors in costume.

Rosland took the name from the Old French “chantecler”, which had been a colloquial term for a cock or rooster with various spelling variants since about 1300 AD (modern French: “chanteclair”). It was also the name used in the Mediaeval folklore tale of “Reynard and the Fox”. Long before its association with chicken-breeding.

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, buttons were popularly themed depicting scenes or characters from opera, theatre, nursery rhymes or fables and generically grouped under those categories.

So the Monk took the name of a Rooster that has been around since 1300 AD.
This is interesting as the articles seem to imply he came up with the breed name.

Oh Father-Oh Father I come To Confess........ ( Old rhyme that just popped up in memory)

 

[crashbandicoot]

So the Monk took the name of a Rooster that has been around since 1300 AD.
This is interesting as the articles seem to imply he came up with the breed name.

Oh Father-Oh Father I come To Confess........ ( Old rhyme that just popped up in memory)

I stoled de name fer dis yer chicken!- Relax my son,I got bigger fish to fry!

 

[Rhapsody]

I don't think that's necessarily the case, or that it has anything to do with chicken-breeding.

I think you’ll find it’s what is known as a “theatre button”… one of many from the late 1800s to early 1900s taking inspiration for their designs from theatrical roots, and ostentatiously worn by highbrow folks.

In this case, the inspiration was the play “Chantecler” written by Edmond Rostand, which has a chanticleer (rooster) as its main character. The play premiered on 7 February 1910 at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris, and made its American debut on Broadway in 1911.

Nice button.

Thank you for the information Red, definitely was an unexpected find but that's why we do it!