Buttonsplus

Here is an original Beutron card costing $1.65 . It has two rectangle enamel buttons on it featuring the Queen of Hearts. I remember buying it from a lady in a wool shop in Seymour many years ago. I had bought some buttons from her stock and got chatting and she said that she had these at home and brought them in the next day for me, They are rather quaint,

Well, you wouldn’t say they were beautiful but I guess on the right garment they would look ok. They certainly are different. Yes, they are made of snake’s skin. They have been coated with a very high gloss.

This beaded button was hand stitched by Helen Pappas in 2017. She does lots of embroidered buttons also and lives near Benalla, Victoria. I bought it at a Melbourne Buttonfest where she and her husband had a stall. It is nice and bright and measures 3 1/4 cm.

These terracotta buttons are perfectly round and quite fine and feature a peacock’s feather. The colours are distinct and really bright and true to life. They are sew through type buttons and measure a little over 2 cm. I do not know where they were made.

Here are two Vegetable Ivory buttons by Bob Benson, USA both being made in 2012. They both have been finely carved with a dye added. One has a large turquoise stone set in the middle while the other has a fossil embedded in the centre. They are harder to obtain now and are becoming very expensive. They measure a little over 4 cm so are quite large.

This is a modern white metal button. It is a realistic button of a daisy flower and has good detail. It is just of average size.

This Celluloid button is a dark dirty green/brown colour and has a central circle of buffed celluloid with a sort of swirly pattern. It has a japanned back and measures just under 4 1/2cm. It would be showy on an overcoat.

Here are two hand painted Satsuma porcelain buttons both featuring a Geisha Girl. They are different colours and poses. I find the buttons with people are not as readily available as those with flowers or birds. These measure 2 cm so are a reasonable size.

Here is a hand painted wooden Russian button featuring a real grizzly bear walking in the woods. It is nice strong bright colours and has a real sheen to it. As you can see it is signed on the back and has the number 94 which I am assuming may be 1994. It is quite a nice size at just under 4 cm.

This Metal Picture button depicts Moses in the Bullrushes. It is amazing how they get so much detail onto such a small space. So much effort was put into making buttons back in the late 1800s and early 1900s.