Hard Rubber Acron Touch Button

Buffum collection, inventory #78

Purchased on July 24, 2014 from Post Fall, ID. String of 95 assorted old buttons. End button is a hard rubber acorn with a sort of greenish appearance. Other buttons include vegetable ivory, matte black glass  balls, waistcoats, one with a tlip on it, clambroth glass, brass flower, black glass with silver luster, black glass with gold luster, shoebutton, charmstring glass, white glass, composition whistle, horn sew thru, black glass pictorials, metal man’s head, chinas, leather, brass with steel Asian scene with pierced border, brass conventionals, yellow glass, sew thru oval embossed composition, dyed shell (deep blue),black metal with ribbed celluloid top.

Loop of all Small Buttons

Buffum collection, inventory #77

Purchased  June 5, 2014 from Garrison, IA. String of 171 small to diminutive size buttons tied in a loop. Buttons include a Civil War era eagle cuff button, black glass, brass, dyed vegetable ivory ball, charmstring glass including overlays, swirlbacks, applied tips, coronets, MOP, hard rubber, glass berry top set in metal, glass set in metal, waistcoats, chinas, shoe button, steel, white glass, glass set in metal with galena, china birdcage. The most interesting item on the string if a dress trim piece that is a tiny fluted brass ball from which a tiny open brass star dangles.