Here are two interesting guides to shanks. I’m actively looking for the sources so I can credit these.
Stanley J. Olsen entitled “Dating Early Plain Buttons By Their Form”, American Antiquity, Volume 28, Number 4, April 1963. Pictorial handout.
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