All things buttons & more …
These four buttons are all large at just under 5 cm and are of Wafer Celluloid. They are all a kind of khaki/ochre colour with geometric patterns on them and are sew through type. I think they are from the 1930’s and were possibly worn on overcoats.
No. 1 is Buff and Black coloured Celluloid with a brass trim. It is 3 1/2cm in diameter.
No. 2 also is a Buff and Black colour with a floral design. It is a little smaller at 3 cm.
No. 1 is a buff coloured Celluloid button with nine small decorative brass squares set in the middle.
No. 2 is another buff coloured button of pressed Celluloid with a fancy brass square in the centre.
Both of these buttons are just over 2 1/2 cm.
Here are two lots of Celluloid buttons which I have put on reproduction cards.
They are similar in design but in different colour schemes. The green ones are just over 2 1/2cm and the brown ones just over 1 1/2cm. My friend Di got them in Athens, Greece while there in 2016.
I think that these four buttons are of moulded celluloid in a cream and brown colour with a touch of gold.
They are set into brass with a japanned back and metal loop shank and are approx. 1 1/4cm.
I was pleased to receive these buttons from my friend Olwyn. She bought them in an Antique Shop in Sharlottetown, Prince Edward Island in 2014. (That is the place of Anne of Green Gables fame)
They are quite different being square and two coloured, having a design pressed into the thin sheet of Celluloid. The shank is of Celluloid also and they are a little under 3 cm .
These cream celluloid buttons have been painted over, two with brown and one with red. They are then buffed back leaving the paint in the crevices only.
Two buttons have raised designs and one incised so quite a different look is achieved. Aren’t they effective.
This is a very recent acquisition to add to my collection. (Actually I only got it yesterday! ) I was so thrilled to get it as I have only seen them in books.
I love both the design and colours and it is bigger than I expected at 3 1/4 cm. Actually the colours are nicer than the photo portrays.
Marion Weeber from USA produced many Celluloid buttons in the 1940’s, lots with fruit and flower designs, so this is a typical example.
Isn’t it amazing how this button is constructed; not just stamped out on a machine.
It shows how much effort was put into making buttons in the early 1900’s. Like I have said before, they are little works of art.
I love these three buttons with different colours on a cream background.
They have been coated with paint then rubbed back to leave colour remaining only in the incised design. They all have a cream Celluloid back and shank and are all a little under 3 cm.