All things buttons & more …
I belong to a small button collecting group and each November we have our Xmas windup and swap a button to the value of $5.
This button was one of my gifts and I really like it. It is a MOP button showing a little girl with a red watering can. I guess it is transfer printed and it is just so cute. It was made in France.
Here is a button hook which I have just purchased. It has a bone handle. Also shown are some boot buttons; the button hook was used to do them up. They are probably from the early 1900’s.
This button was made by F. Rossi from U.S.A. in 2010.
It is of Balsa wood and carved in the form of an owl. It has a simple charm about it. It measures a little over 2 1/2 cm.
Here are two groups of Paste buttons with various shapes and sizes. One button incorporates pearls as well as the glass. Some are set in gold and some in silver metal.
This button has a disc of black glass with a floral design impressed into it and gold lustre added. It has been set into a floral border of white metal and is quite different.
This needlecase is colourful and by the note inside it was made in the 1930’s. It is nice to still have the note which is written in ink. It was made in England as many in a similar style were done back then.
Here are two different paste buttons, one having clear glass set in white metal in a star shape. The other has clear and blue glass and has been claw set.
Being square, this button is a little bit different. The centre is a metalized plastic rose which has been used as a button in itself over the years. It also has a bevelled edge. I guess it would have been used as a coat button.
Most of these buttons are plastic with a metal or metalized plastic centre. They are of various designs and sizes.
Here are three more clear perspex buttons with a metal disc in the centre. One has a cut out disc, one a pressed floral design and the other a horse and rider also pressed into the metal. They are all 3 1/2 cm.