Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Scenic Touch Button

Buffum collection, inventory #13

String of 117 buttons purchased April 22, 2005 from a man in Butler, PA. Touch button is x-large alpine village scene with mill and churches. Buttons of interest– large brass with silver print ring and red-orange glass inset, medium Golden Age flower in star (unable to read backmark due to tightness of buttons on string), General Service coat button (GS226A 25 in Tice), kaleidoscope blue and silver, bird cage shanks, black glass with spider and fly in web, various N.R. Co. Goodyear rubber buttons, medium sew thru rubber with four leaves, brass Calvary sleeve (CV21 59A Tice), General Service coat (Scovill Mfg. Co Waterbury), flecked composition, brass with high relief realistic beetle, medium Golden Age (Benedict & Burnham Extra), charm string glass, chinas, waistcoats, ruby glass, brass cuff with NC or NG and crest (J.H. Wilson Pat 1878 Phila), small United States of America with number ‘1’ in wreath



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