
It was an inadvertent very clever trick with the camera.
The button rim does suggest "early-early", according to "conventional wisdom", and I've never seen one in this sort of colour with a wider slimmer flange, although I have with wider blobbier ones. I don't know where wider blobby rims fit in, the lumpy ones that are hoping to be flanges. However, button rims are not that uncommon on pullled ears, and I suspect there are too many around for them all to be Harris period, which also calls into question the wisdom of button rims all being of that period.
I'm still not sure what colour it is, yellowy-brown, or a more amethysty-brown. I think I've got an inside-out in this colour - but it's got so much silver stuff on it, doing light tricks, it's really hard to tell.
Blues do sometimes appear in photographs, because of the effects the silver produce with the light.