Sunday, January 19, 2014

Strung with Care

Buffum collection, inventory #25

String of 316 buttons. String was purchased from Argyle, Texas on March 16, 2006. Buttons were strung by an elderly woman in a nursing home. Buttons are all small or diminutive and string is comprised of small brass, small steel and steel cup, pewter, waistcoat, Bohemian glass, Czech glass, modern glass post 1918, reverse painted glass, one diminutive paperweight with a rose, vegetable ivory, sew thru china, fabric covered, uranium glass (about six), charm string glass with swirlback, square abalone, abalone with steel,, Paris back, transparent gold celluloid tight top, black glass, black glass with luster, ivoroid.



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