Antler Button

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Antlers are the large and complex horn-like appendages of male deer, consisting of bony outgrowths from the head with no covering of keratin as is found in true horns. Each antler grows from an attachment point on the skull called a pedicle. While an antler is growing it is covered with highly vascular skin called velvet, which supplies oxygen and nutrients to the growing bone; once the antler has achieved its proper size, the velvet is lost and the antler's bone dies. This dead bone structure is the mature antler. Antlers shed after each mating season.

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• Wikipedia

Most antler buttons range in sizes from around the size of a nickel to the size of a quarter depending on the set of antlers they were cut from.