Editing Button (section)

===As containers===
Since at least the seventeenth century, when box-like metal buttons were constructed especially for the purpose,<ref name="17th smuggler button">{{cite web|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/hg/index.ssf/2008/06/marv_bondarowicz_the_oregonian_3.html|title=For a collector hooked on history, every button tells a story|last=Dahl|first=Liz|date=June 5, 2008|work=The Oregonian: Homes & Gardens|publisher=Oregon Live LLC|access-date=11 March 2010|location=Oregon, USA}}</ref> buttons have been one of the items in which [[drug]] [[smugglers]] have attempted to hide and transport illegal substances. At least one modern smuggler has tried to use this method.<ref name="2009 Australian customs finds heroin in dress buttons">{{cite web|url=http://www.customs.gov.au/site/Heroinconcealedindressbuttons.asp|title=heroin concealed in dress buttons|last=Australian Government|date=12 November 2009 |publisher=Customs and Border Protection Communication and Media|access-date=11 March 2010|location=Australia}}</ref>

Also making use of the storage possibilities of metal buttons, during the [[World Wars]], [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[U.S. military]] [[locket]] buttons were made, containing miniature working [[compass]]es.<ref>{{harv|Luscomb|2003|p=126}}</ref>