A Wide Variety of Materials

Buffum collection, inventory #27

String of 350 buttons. String was purchased from St. Petersburg, FL on July 2, 2006. String came from the executor of the estate of a woman who died in 2004. Her nickname for him was “Snip”. Have original note from woman on plastic bag string was in and short explanation note. String is on its original waxed cord.  Touch button is a large pressed black-dyed horn pictorial of flowers with background design.  Buttons on the string range from diminutive to large and are of many different materials. There are many types of steel buttons on the string. Buttons on the string are made of horn with MOP, brass with paint, brass openwork with cut steels, brass botanicals, black glass with silver luster, black glass with red luster, brass with black glass inset, vegetable ivory with cut steels, riveted cut steels with blued steels, Civil War era “A” artillery cuff button, medium Golden Age (bm), cobalt glass ball with speckles, many waistcoats, charm string glass, swirl back glass, chinas, small glass with paste, openwork white metal bird medium & large sizes, MOP, abalone, pin shank shell, clam broth ball, white glass Greek key, black glass, steep cups, faceted steels with high twist border, 1-pc and 2-pc brass pictorials, caramel glass in brass waistcoat, Nailsea glass (small), black glass with goldstone, brass with shell with ruby glass with goldstone inset, brass with black fabric, heads, buckles, abalone with steel, small drums, celluloid in brass, china stencil, small brass Liberty cap with rayed background with rounded back (small flaw), small brass hot air balloon, General Service eagle cuff (bm) pierced brass 2-pc, hexagonal dimensional pierced brass, steels, vegetable ivory with turret shank, abalone, fox head sporting button coat size, large copper colonial sun design, large early GAR brass coat button (bm Goodwins Pat), large Victorian brass with celluloid, large architectural (pagoda), small architectural, stamped steel, NEL Co coat (Scoville bm), small head with 4-pt star (Liberty?), vegetable ivory with pearl disk, gilts, early, Navy cuff button, faceted cut pearl dyed blue, steel screen with floral design, ruby glass with gold. Brass veil with metal band, brass bud button, star pattern calico, original tints, Paris backs, small Golden Age