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A pair of large buttons, with a coloured etching 'Les Trois Etats' under glass satirising the tax system, depicting the Clergy on one side, the Nobility on the other, the Common Man below - 1 .5in. (4cm.), late 18th century, French, one button slightly perished
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A pair of large buttons, with a coloured etching 'Les Trois Etats' under glass satirising the tax system, depicting the Clergy on one side, the Nobility on the other, the Common Man below - 1 .5in. (4cm.), late 18th century, French, one button slightly perished

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A pair of large buttons, with a coloured etching 'Les Trois Etats' under glass satirising the tax system, depicting the Clergy on one side, the Nobility on the other, the Common Man below - 1 .5in. (4cm.), late 18th century, French, one button slightly perished
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This was the most famous satire in the French Revolutionary Period

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