Category: BAKELITE

These Bakelite buttons are all a type of mottley green colour.  Although they are quite plain they have a certain charm about them.

Both of these buttons are black and about 3  1/2 cm.

One has a clear perspex centre with a brass pin shank.  The second one has been carved with a small Mother of Pearl disc in the centre.

The first button is large at a little under 5 cm.  It is of mottley green bakelite and has a Mother of Pearl centre.

The second button is a two piece button with carving on both sections, one being green and the other brown.  They both have a metal loop shank.   I guess these would both be overcoat buttons and possibly from the 1940’s.

This is a small group of five various Bakelite buttons.  They are mostly a mottley blue colour and apart from the log shaped one are all sew through buttons.

These three Bakelite buttons are mottled colours of Blue, Red and Green.

They are two layered with a complimentary colour.  The cut away design shows the colour underneath and they are a little unusual being oval shaped.

This group of Bakelite buttons are all in the shade of brown.  Two are very unusual shapes;  one a long log type the other a rectangle.  They have a nice look and feel about them.

These three Bakelite buttons are various shades of brown each with a different pattern.  They are all sew through and measure from just over 2 cm to just over 2  1/2 cm.

Here is a nice group of Bakelite buttons.  Five of them incorporate Applejuice Bakelite with another colour.  Four are plain colours with a ridged pattern.  They have a certain charm.

 

 

 

 

I think these two buttons are from the 1930’s and are made from Bakelite with a metalized plastic rose in the centre.

The rose was a popular design, some buttons made being purely the rose itself.

This button which is quite large at 4 cm combines three materials.

The dark brown base is bakelite, the scrolly escutcheon is metal and the amber coloured block is glass.  What a lovely and dramatic button.

It has a metal loop shank.  The glass is bevelled and claw set and the escutcheon is riveted on as can be seen in the photo.