Friday, February 7, 2014

With a Half Dollar on It

Buffum collection, inventory #41

A string of 385 buttons purchased June 2, 2008 on ebay from St. Petersburg, FL. Touch button is a large black vegetable ivory with red glass cabochon. Vegetable ivory coat, white glass w/black stripes, brass with fabric, veg ivory w/pinshank, black glass picture buttons, brass with black glass inset, brass with fabric inset, brass w/blue crackle glass dome, silver luster buckle, amber charmstring, various charmstring buttons, radiants, brass conventionals, pressed horn lion’s head, etched shell, hard rubber, black glass, brass with insets, various chinas, mirror glass disk, clambroth glass, brass with glass inset waistcoats, white glass, clambroth berry top, brass w/pink berry top, black glass tile, black glass lusters, turquoise glass, composition whistle, dyed etched shell, tortoise glass whistle, brass peacocks, bone w/pinshank, MOP disk, real clamshell button, composition axe, ruby glass, green glass cone w/white tip,, white glass with black glass w/foil tip, cobalt blue glass with goldstone, brass with celluloid inset, brass with oval saphiret, pink glass owl head (broken pin) and battered half dollar coin on string.



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