All things buttons & more …
Here are two original Button cards which I have just obtained. One is Lady Fashion Quality Pearls and the other is trademarked Luckday.
The type of advertising always intrigues me on these older cards as it is so different to today’s advertising.
I love Satsuma porcelain and here is a buckle ( or actually half a buckle ) It is not easy to find both sides which are matching and connect with a hook.
It is a typical floral design with a Chrysanthemum and has a royal blue border. Most of the scrolly gold work on the border has worn off over the years.
I was sold this button as Celluloid but it is actually brass with a floral design pressed and painted onto it. It does look like buffed celluloid. I think it is a nice button. It is quite large at just under 3 1/2 cm.
This is a modern domed button with a clockface and the words ” We are all mad here ” on it. I think it is a Mad Hatter button from the Alice in Wonderland collection.
My friend Sonia gave it to me at the recent Buttonfest in Melbourne with my purchases suggesting that we all ( button collectors ) should have one. It is just a bit of fun.
Here are six Cameo Style button covers. They are made from some type of plastic but look quite realistic.
You use them to ” dress up ” a garment by sliding them over the existing plain button and snapping them together. What a nifty idea.
I show now some photos from the Buttonfest held in Melbourne on 13th October, 2018.
They are all from the Victorian Button Collectors Club display there. The theme was for buttons of the world and there were some really beautiful buttons and buckles displayed. Of course there were thousands of buttons for sale and I had my yearly splurge which I will share later. It was another successful and well run show.
Here we have two brass buttons with a ” horsey ” theme. The larger one shows a horse and horseshoe while the smaller one has a horseshoe and whip. They have been popular subject matter for buttons over the years.
These plain coloured buttons are Chef’s buttons. They are detachable from the Chef’s white shirt and certainly are not at all decorative, purely functional. I think the different colours denotes the different stages of a Chef’s working life but am not sure.
This metal button features the head of Mercury with his winged helmet. He is a character in Roman Mythology and is commonly identified with the Greek Hermes, the fleet footed messenger of the Gods.
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.