PEARLY KING: Harry Singfield is the original Pearly King of Dagenham who broadcast in a recent edition of the British Corporation’s feature “In Town To-night.’ He estimates that there are 25,000 pearl buttons on the suit he is wearing in this Pi cture says that it weighs'63lb. His wife who is the Pearly Queen has 15,000 buttons on her coat and skirt. When the family goes out on Sundays with the pony and cart the buttons worn between them total more than 50,000.-
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXI, Issue 8838, 30 October 1942, Page 1
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83PEARLY KING: Harry Singfield is the original Pearly King of Dagenham who broadcast in a recent edition of the British Corporation’s feature “In Town To-night.’ He estimates that there are 25,000 pearl buttons on the suit he is wearing in this Picture says that it weighs'63lb. His wife who is the Pearly Queen has 15,000 buttons on her coat and skirt. When the family goes out on Sundays with the pony and cart the buttons worn between them total more than 50,000.- Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXI, Issue 8838, 30 October 1942, Page 1
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