Marsha Cassada has kindly decided to share her charmstring
"It is a small one, only 75 buttons. I found it in Mangum, Oklahoma a few years ago. I have never seen one in this part of the country before; Mangum is part of Old Greer County and belonged to the state of Texas before Oklahoma Territory was opened. I believe it belonged to an early settler. I took all the buttons off and cleaned them; a few of the metal ones were not salvageable. The string was in good shape, so I put all the buttons back on the string in the same order. Among items on the string were a little tin chair, and a Madonna and Child charm. In my military button book, I looked up the uniform buttons and they all dated from WW I or earlier. There is a penny with the middle taken out; I was hoping there was enough left to tell the year, but there was not. My favorites are the Kate Greenaway and the lucky swastika. There is also a nice hair button. I removed the little chair from the string and display it in my dollhouse."
Military buttons and good luck swastika
Little metal chair
Shell heart
Madonna and Child charm
Hair Button
