Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Came in a Jeweler's Box

Buffum collection, inventory #38

String of approximately 237 buttons. This string was purchased on ebay from Shelton, WA on April 30, 2008. The string arrived May 3, 2008 in a small green cardboard jeweler’s box from an Illinois jewelry store. The touch button is a large brass pictorial of wheat stalks. There is a nice Lucy & Edgar brass pictorial next, then black glass, white metal, small calicoes and chinas (plain and ringer), a medium white pie crust china with a touch of blue at the edges, original tints (red and blue), small brass conventional designs, cut steels, faceted steels, black glass with silver, gold and carnival lusters, brass with etched designs, vegetable ivory carved and plain, self shank and sew thru, a black-yellow-red Tingue (rough used condition), fabric buttons, brass with pierced border and fabric center, a lot of various small and medium black glass buckle buttons, reverse painted clear glass with flat coronet top, composition, composition with flecks of sparkle, ruby and red glass, two gold glass beads, I goldish beaded fabric button, a medium Golden Age button, pewters, brass ball buttons, told pansy button.



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