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Here is a vegetable ivory button which has been dyed brown and has a metal escutcheon depicting berries. It has a metal loop shank and measures 2 1/2 cm. When getting it out to measure it I realize I have another one which is smaller at just over 1 1/2 cm. You don’t know what you have in your collection!!

I do love Austrian Tinies buttons and have quite a nice little collection of them. As suggested by their name they are only small but have so much detail in them. They are a combination of metal with say velvet, pearl or celluloid background with delicate metal design over them and have a japanned back and a metal loop shank. So much design for such a small item.

A lady in an Opp shop in Rushworth gave me a tin of buttons when she took me to her house. They were quite dirty and jumbled about but at the bottom was this Ivory button featuring a dragon. I was pretty pleased to find it and it cleaned up well. It measures 3 cm.

This plastic button (maybe it is Bakelite?) shows a tulip cut out. I do not know how old it is but I imagine it is of a reasonable age. It is simple in it’s design but quite effective.

Here are some realistic plastic buttons in the shape of a daisy. Some of them are pearlized. Are they from the 1940s or 1950s? Each of them would look good on the appropriate material.

Here is an original card of Pewter buttons made in Norway. I think they are from the 1960s or 1970s. At that time there were a lot of Pewter buttons made in Norway depicting skiing themes, elk, vikings and snowflake symbols etc. It is nice to have the full set of buttons.

I only have two mosaic buttons and the other one is tiny. It is amazing how they create a button with such tiny pieces of glass. It is not really my colours but I have seen no other for sale. It is set in silver and has a rope like edge, I think it was made in Italy.

Here are two enamel buttons which are a little different to some I have in my collection. The colours and the open work and that they both have cut steel decoration makes them so. I would suggest that they are from the Art Nouveau period.

Here is a group of simple fabric covered buttons from a few years gone by. It is interesting to compare these fabrics to the fabrics in the shops currently. I think they have got bolder and brighter as the years have gone by. That is the way of fashion I guess.

This pair of buttons are of a rich red thread wound around a mould which is probably wood or bone. Four diamond shapes form a square in the middle which I think is stitched. There is no actual shank and you sew through the threaded back. They are only small measuring under 1 1/2 cm. I guess they are fairly old.