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Here are three Ceramic buttons, two with an earthen coloured background and one with white. They are simple in design and I especially like the square one. It sort of suggests a flower to me. They are all sew through type and would look good on a homespun, handknitted cardigan in natural colours.

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These two glass buttons were hand made by Di Bloomfield from Victoria. They are nice and bright with coloured designs on their backgrounds of orange and yellow. They have a glued on plastic shank and measure 2 cm.

I love lacy glass buttons and they are very expensive if in excellent order. This one as usual is moulded glass in a diamond like pattern. It has yellow and red painting on the back and has silver lustre around the edge. It has a metal four way box shank and measures 3 cm.

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Here are two Victorian Celluloid buttons. The metal has been tinted purple which was a popular colour back then. The celluloid in both buttons is of a brown shade. They both have a japanned back and metal loop shank and measure 3 1/2 cm.

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Here is a button featuring a lady’s head. It is quite bulky and I am not sure of the material used. It is set in a filigree white metal base. It measures 3 1/2 cm X 3 cm and has a brass loop shank.

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Many years ago a lady from our village let me look through her button tin and this button was in it. It is a Mother of Pearl button which has been carved with a bird and some flowers and is rather pretty. The back is quite different with an adjustable metal fastener. I was quite excited to receive it.

This is a nice group of smoky purple glass buttons. They are varied in design, a couple being Art Deco. They all have a self shank.

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Here are two more new buttons which I bought in 2012. The triangular one is plastic with a shell centre. You can see the back of the shell as the button is openbacked. The round button is metal with a shell like disc in the centre.

This group of seven black buttons are rather showy and are also from The Button Shop, Malvern. One has diamentes, two have cord trim and one is beaded. Two are plastic black glass look alikes. The other one is finely etched showing the underneath cream colour. They make a rather nice group.

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Here are two large buttons with black leatherette wound around them in different styles. They are very well made and have a plastic back.