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A Bragger button was seen primarily in the southern United States. In the southern states in the late 1700s through the 1800s it was customary for a plantation owner to place a hand made button on top of the post of the interior main staircase to signify that his home and land were owned outright with no monies due toward the eventual ownership...meaning, that there was no mortgage owed on the plantation. Bragger buttons were fairly small (about the size of a silver dollar) and were permanently affixed to the middle of the main staircase post. They were generally made of Ivory or bone and were hand-carved with the owner's initials or a family crest design.

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