All things buttons & more …
This button depicts children playing Ring of Roses, a popular game in years gone by. The figures are of brass on a matte black background. It has a decorative border and a japanned back. I received it for my birthday a week ago. It measures 3 cm.
This metal picture button is mounted on a bright orange plastic disc and that is how I bought it. It is brass and is embossed with a Geisha Girl and some apple blossom. There is also what looks like a Japanese symbol. I wonder what it means. The button itself measures a little over 3 1/2 cm.
This is a Metal Picture button featuring Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf of the popular children’s story. The scene is in brass and it has a very decorative border. It is rather large and measures 4 cm.
Here is a Metal Picture Button featuring Putto at the Fountain. Putto holds an umbrella and sits on a wall which has an ivy growing on it. It is great how much detail that these picture buttons have on them. It has a japanned back with a metal loop shank and measures 3 1/2 cm.
This metal picture button has a floral theme. In the inner circle is a large brass flower on a painted dimpled background. On the outer area of white metal is a brass sprig of small flowers. It measures a little over 3 1/2 cm. In all it is rather a nice button.
Here is a lovely metal picture button named “Woodland Vows” It shows a couple carving their initials in a tree in brass. The border has been tinted purple and contrasts nicely. It has a japanned back and metal loop shank.
This Picture Button is of tinted brass and features a picture of some buildings beside a stream with a bridge. There are lots of picture buttons with similar designs.
The orange plastic disc really offsets this Brass Picture button. I do not think it is originally part of the button but that is how I bought it. It features an Oriental lady with a fan, cherry blossom and some Japanese symbols.
The overall diameter is 6 cm. I bought it at The Buttonfest held in Melbourne recently.
This silver button is quite small but very decorative with a cherub utop a scroll.
It may well have been one of a boxed set of buttons which were very popular in the late 1890’s and early 1900’s.
Pictured on this button is a man in a hat sitting by what looks like the edge of a stream. He has a crook in his hand so is probably a Herdsman. It is 2 1/2 cm in diameter.