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My friend Olwyn bought these buttons at The Button Queen Shop in London in 2011.  She is not a collector yet always finds some interesting ones for me and asks them to write some details on the cards .  We have a day of reckoning when she comes home.

No. 1  This is a silver button with a simple floral design on a square shape.  It is backmarked  Made in Deccan and has a Trade Mark.  It is circa 1900.

No. 2  This button pictures The Duchess of Devonshire.  It is a high relief moulded button and is a 1940’s reproduction of a 19th Century button.

No. 3  These are reverse cut and painted perspex buttons from the 1930’s.   I have shown both back and front.

I find this button really intriguing.  It belongs to my friend Di.

The base is a pierced brass circle with an edge rolled under.  It has three tiny aqua flowers with gold centres sitting flat then three more bell shaped flowers hanging loose.  I think the flowers may be of Celluloid.  They are wired through the back to keep them in place.  It is quite cute and I have never seen one like it before. It is just under 2 cm in diameter.   I love it.

One of these head buttons is metalized plastic ( No 3 ) and the other two are actually metal.

I do not know exactly who they represent although one is from Roman or Greek Mythology.  They are interesting anyway.

Buttonsplus has it’s name  because buttons are mainly the subject matter.  Plus means I can pop in anything that takes my fancy at the time and just for a small sidetrack.  One does not know what is around the corner so sidetracks are sometimes fun.  That is how I feel anyway.  As the old saying goes “A change is as good as a holiday.”

This button is quite small at under 2 cm in diameter.

It is made from Papier Mache and has an inlaid shell flower pattern.  A metal loop shank is fitted into the back.

If you have withdrawal symptoms, I will now give you an overdose.  I have missed out a few days.  Life gets hectic when you are retired and getting old doesn’t it?

I hope that you are enjoying my new website; the old one has now been put to rest.  It is all a learning curve and good for the old brain.  I enjoy it anyway and to me it is like having a chat to someone.  So go for it!!

We have had weeks of extremely hot days for nearly 3 weeks and I was so sick of being indoors trying to keep cool.  Last Wednesday it was cooler so on the spur of the moment I decided to go for a drive.  I went to Kyabram and met a friend for a coffee and then to the local Salvos Opp Shop.  I was looking in a small box of buttons when one of the volunteers came over.  She said that she had a few tins of buttons out the back and that I could go through them.  I had told her that I was a collector.  Well I had great fun and got quite a few black and clear glass buttons as well as some old plastics and perspex so I was pretty pleased.  I am sure that many of them had not been used. They cost $5 the lot.  I reckon there was at least $30 worth.  Just to be cooler and to have a good find made my day. So here they are.

In 2010 I bought a jar of buttons at a local opp shop.  In it I found this string of buttons.  It was quite tangled so I pulled it apart and carefully placed them as I undid them so I could restring them in exactly the same manner.

I guess some young child had played with Grandma’s button tin and maybe on a rainy day had fun threading them.  If they could only speak they could tell me who, when and where they were done.  Anyway I have them now with a label on them to explain their story; just a little memory of Social  History.

This is a lovely button having a silver metal decorative border with a claw set cameo type lady’s head in the centre.

I am guessing that this button may be from the 1920’s – 30’s however I am not sure.   I am also not sure but think the cameo is white glass which has been painted.  Nevertheless I find it very appealing.

These buttons all have a paisley design in the centre and are made of various materials.

No. 1 has a black border with paisley in blue shades.

No. 2 has a greyish border and the paisley has greens and pinks with gold added.

No. 3 has a gold border and paisley also in blues.

They are really pretty in their own way.  Paisley material was all the fashion back in the 1960’s or 70’s or thereabouts.  Paisley patterned shawls were very popular in  Scotland in the late 1840’s and 50’s.  Paisley design has been in vogue many times over the years.