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.