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Here are three different plastic buttons all with metal eyelets for sewing them on. They are opp shop finds. I would like to know their age.

This is a group of buttons from a bottle of buttons at the local opp shop. It is typical of what you might find and I was quite pleased with this lot. It was a few years ago and you don’t get buttons there now. That was the fun of sorting through a heap and seeing what you could find.

Here are three different metalized plastic buttons sort of in a floral design. These ones are all gold and I have many of them. They come in silver too. They are very light being plastic although some people can mistake them as being metal buttons.

This is a modern white metal button of which I do not know the age. It is quite domed and has a flower in the centre. The border is decorative with a floral theme as well. So all in all it is a rather nice button.

Here are two clear perspex buttons with a decorative white metal disc in the centre. On the back there are wavy groove lines which have then been painted silver. This gives the wavy look on the front of the button which is very effective. They measure a little under 3 cm.

These three metal buttons all have heads on them. One is decorated with cut steels and one has a fabric background while the other one is all brass. I quite like buttons with heads depicted on them although it would be interesting to know who they were.

It is nice to have an original boxed set of buttons and these tiny enamel ones are no exception. They are blue and white with a tiny pink flower and of course have the brass split pins to attach them. I guess they come from the early 1900s.

This button is fairly plain but I bought it because it had a map of Australia on it. It is a white metal with blue enamel. I guess it was not made for any special occasion as there are no words on the front. It has a backmark which I cannot read. It measures a little over 1 1/2cm.

These two black glass with silver lustre buttons are both really nice but do not show off to their best advantage in the photos. They both have a metal four way box shank and measure between 2 1/2 and 3 cm.

This moulded celluloid button is much too tizzy for me. I am not a lover of pink or pastel colours as this definitely is. It is delicately made. I can’t imagine what fabric you would use it on, maybe a plain white or pastel shade. It measures just under 2 1/2 cm which is a common size. That would be near enough to 36 lignes in button measurement.