“Buttons cast from those washed up on the Wapping shoreline known as Execution Dock where 400 years ago pirates, smugglers & mutineers were executed” 

Strangely English crooked & damaged Squalor buttons are made from bio-resin & tinted in toffee

“This morning, a little after ten o’clock, Colley, Cole, and Blanche, the three sailors convicted of the murder of Captain Little, were brought out of Newgate, and conveyed in solemn procession to Execution Dock… Colley seemed in a state resembling that of a man stupidly intoxicated, and scarcely awake…”