Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Lady with Hat Kaleidoscope

Buffum Collection, Inventory # 86



String of approximately 398 buttons strung on pink cotton thread purchased May 15, 2015 from  Westfield, MA. This is the fourth of a number of charmstrings she found and purchased at Brimfield. I did not win the first one she offered but have purchased two others (CS83 and CS84). Touch button is a design under glass on metal. Buttons on this string consist of enamel on brass with wire mesh background in brass, enamel on brass with riveted cut steel border, large clambroth glass, large carved MOP,  XL brass floral pictorial, black glass pictorials, designs and conventionals in a variety of patterns and styles including etched, carved, embossed, molded, backmarked Dec 28, 1881 Deknatel black glass buttons, white, black, green and gray chinas, black glass with carnival and silver luster, small gilts with backmarks and without, small enamels on brass, small paint on brass, steel cups, steel buttons, brass with tinted inset, small black glass with white painted stars, brass with cut steels, pierced brass with riveted steels, dimi abalone button with turquoise glass dot, brass with celluloid background, trapazoid-shaped dark abalone with etched design, black possibly vegetable ivory acorn-shaped button, vegetable ivory ball button, pewter pictorial, metal figural fly button with blue painted wings, glass set in brass, black glass with goldstone faceted ball button, three assorted kaleidescopes, one with dimple top, the other two with sparkly inside picture, a medium sized kaleidoscope with a woman’s head and shoulders but glass is crackly obscuring her somewhat, chunky  cubic white glass swirlback, assorted charmstring glass, waistcoats, coronets, radiant, dewdrop, reverse painted clear glass, pressed glass, clear glass with molded back, milk glass, yellow glass, carved MOP with steels, china stencil sew thru, carved MOP sew thru, steel cups, black glass omega, medium stamped dyed horn, sew thru black dyed horn buttons, blued steel cup with brass helmeted heads, celluloid disk set in brass, dyed blue and red MOP, pewter bright, black glass spindles, oval dark abalone with steel flower escutcheon, yellow glass clamshell, pierced brass with shaped facted steels, brass anchor, matte black glass ball button with carved star pattern overall, lithograph in brass with cut steel border, gray with white coronet, orange and white china ringers, cut steel diamond shaped button with MOP oblong center with a faceted cut steel pin shank, very shiny goldstone disk set in brass, small brass and gilt buttons, large black sleeper with brown target, large slag or marbled glass, shell sew thrus, milk glass with black glass star at center, pin shank hard rubber, golden age monogram with Davies & Son London Hanover Street and stars backmark, paper classic head inset in metal floral border, colorful abalone set in metal, large original tint openwork brass with cut steels at opposite end of the string.






Deknatel




Glass set in metal, metal & paint fly, brass missing paint or enamel




Paper inset in metal




Enamel on mesh screen in brass, enamel on brass with cut steel border




Brass with paste inset




Black vegetable ivory acorn




Design under glass





Oval abalone w/steel center




Metal with celluloid inset, dimi abalone with turquoise glass at center




High-domed kaleidoscope with female  head (with hat!) and shoulders picture, Glass is crackled from beneath, behind is high arched steels on dyed shell and brass pictorial


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