Month: May 2020

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These two modern buttons are very striking with their bright yellow and purple glass stones. They were bought in China in 2013

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These six buttons are all the same design but with different colour combinations. They have an Art Nouveau style look about them so guess they may be from the early 1900’s. They have a metal four way box shank.

This plastic button I have just bought. It catches the light where it has been facetted. The centre is silver with black dots. It is a sew through type and measures 2 1/2 cm.

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Here are two more new plastic buttons. One is a dirty yellow in an oval shape with the ends cut off. The other one is maroon and white with some carved lines to one side. They are good examples of current style buttons.

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Here are two new plastic buttons. I have just bought them having gone on an “outing” during this Coronavirus isolation. One is red with a multi coloured oval in the centre. The other is mottled black and white with a tinsel like inclusion. They measure just over 2 cm.

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Here we have two groups of Pearlized Plastic buttons. The pearl like coating is made from crushed fish scales. I think they are from the 1940’s. Some are sew through type and the others are shanked. They are new to my collection having been just given to me by my friend Sandra.

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Here are three different Ceramic buttons with simple but effective designs. They have a modern look about them. One has a white background while the other two are a taupe colour. They all measure approx. 2 cm.

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Here we have a Cut Steel button from the late 1800’s. The cut steels are facetted like a diamond. They are made from old horse shoe nails and you can see on the back of the button where they have been individually rivetted in. The button is a quite open design and measures 3 1/2cm so is reasonably large.

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Here are three leather buttons each with stitching around the outside. The black and white square ones are similar with eyelets. The round one has three crosses stitched on it and has a metal loop shank.

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These three Lithograph buttons are men’s waistcoat buttons from the 1890’s. They each feature a lady in a large hat, fashionable at the time. They were often made in boxed sets of six and these would have originally been part of a set.