Deep cobalt glass jewel prong-mounted in a quality mount beset with glittering pastes. Loop shank. Est. selling price is $100-200.

One-piece brass featuring a fouled anchor against a marine scene backdrop with sailboat on the waves, lighthouse atop the rocks, birds in flight, and sun on the horizon. Shown BBB PL 245-3. Loop shank. Est. selling price is $30-60.

Faceted transparent amethyst glass with 10-sided flat face is mounted in an ornate and pierced brass setting embellished with steel jewels. Wire support bar with U shank. Est. selling price is $100-200.

An orange, silver, and black textured and pleated design under glass forms the jeweled showpiece for the decorated brass rim with interwoven cord design. Japanned reverse with loop shank. Est. selling price is $60-100.

High relief stork stands sentinel on one leg against a darkened engraved background designed with water and botanical motifs and five steel jewels. Loop shank. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Fabulous owl head reverse painted under slightly domed glass. Silvered brass mount. Loop shank. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Brass Victorian pictorial featuring a screech owl on a branch against a wood background. Similar design shown BBB PL 141-6. Japanned reverse. Est. selling price is $30-60.

A brass floral stem escutcheon decorates a brass weave pattern background fitted into the linear steel cup with decorated rim. Brass wire loop. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Seated cherub reading a scroll. English or Continental jasperware mounted in metal. Loop shank. Est. selling price is $200-400.

A lovely cream and gray striated satin glass oval jewel mounted in an openwork brass ribbon design embellished with paste jewels. Elongated loop shank. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Cherub beats a double drum on this large Victorian pictorial. Tinted mirror steel twinkles through the drums’ screen surfaces. Similar button shown BBB PL 184-4. Reverse shows loop shank on support bar finding, showing that this was originally half a buckle. Est. selling price is $60-100.

A paste embellished “comma” decorates this large brass design with lovely iridescent pearl background. The ridged border set with cut steel jewels is an interesting contrast to the flowing center design. Wire U shank. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Delicate Victorian design featuring a brass bird and branch applied to the screenback. Steel jewels form the foliage and an outer border. Brass wire U shank. Est. selling price is $100-200.

The combination of enamel, engraved silver, and the center oval translucent glass jewel renders this a striking design. Loop shank. Est. selling price is $200-400.

Green snail shell with beautiful pink and green iridescence features a center brass medallion and drilled border design. Brass mount with serrated rim. Self shank. Est. selling price is $60-100.

This large button features a striped green rectangular satin glass jewel framed by pierced border scallops and graduated sizes of steel jewels. Wire U shank. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Exquisitely carved 18th-C mother-of-pearl featuring a steel medallion with center glass pinshank and gold tinted steel back plate twinkling through the pearl cutouts. Flat wire copper loop on the reverse side of the pinshank. Est. selling price is $200-400.

This deluxe target design features a center inset paste surrounded by Mother of Pearl, a circlet of sparkling brilliants on gilt metal, an inner and an outer rim of either rose gold or copper, and an outer border of green enamel. Yellow metal slightly convex reverse. Loop shank. Est. selling price is $100-200.

From a famous set of jasperware buttons that depict Parisian buildings vital to the French Revolution is this view of the Hotel Des Invalides. On July 14, 1789, the citizens of Paris stormed Les Invalides to capture the cannons stored there; those cannons were unleashed on the Bastille later that same day–now known as Bastille Day. Steel collet, copper rim and back. Est. selling price is $600-1500.

A large coin-like brass made in France in the late 19th century by Trelon, Weldon and Weil of Paris (T.W.W.). This button may have been made for South American Gauchos to adorn their costumes in place of real gold or silver coins. The button features a phrygian cap, clasped hands, a laurel wreath, and the words REPUBLICA ARGENTINA. Reverse marked PARIS and T. Heavy brass loop shank. Est. selling price is $60-100.

18th century copper in an unusual pierced design and intricate machined engraving on inner and outer borders and the center radial design. Heavy copper loop shank. Est. selling price is $200-400.

Large milk glass portrait of Minerva with painted decoration in colors of orange, green, and brown, and an area of blue on the background. Brass loop and plate shank. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Hand-tooled copper with inset reverse intaglio glass featuring a Neoclassical portrait with a laurel wreath. Est. selling price is $600-1500.

From a set depicting bacchantes & satyrs comes this colorful scene of a bacchante pouring wine from an ewer into a chalice held by a wooly-legged satyr. Gilded copper rim, tinned sheet-iron back. Est. selling price is $600-1500.

Victorian ivoroid (celluloid) goat with a great border of bows and pale blue pastes. Metal reverse with loop shank. Est. selling price is $400-600.

18th century jasperware scene featuring Neptune as a merman with his mermaid partner and two children emerging from the waves. Bright copper rim. Shown in Loic Allio’s book “A Button Odyssey”, p. 105. Copper reverse with loop shank. Est. selling price is $600-1500.

A large and unusual oval shape 18th century copper featuring a center chased 8-point star formed around and within a delicate engraved inner and outer circle. Note the elegant chased border. Copper loop shank. Est. selling price is $400-600.

18th century steel with scalloped border embellished with individually riveted steel jewels. A large center faceted steel forms the pinshank. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Deluxe Victorian jewel featuring a center faux moss agate glass jewel. A ‘twinkle’ background is revealed beneath an openwork laurel wreath bedecked with pastes bordering the center glass. Cut steel jewels and an outer decorative silvered brass border complete the design. Japanned reverse with loop shank. Est. selling price is $60-100.

This extra-large Fop with original tint patina features an Incroyable and Merveilluese engaged in conversation. Nice detail and border design. Loop shank. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Romeo and Juliet reach out to each other from Juliet’s position on the curtained balcony on this detailed theatrical scene with twinkle screenback and original tint. Note how the screenback is also utilized in the balcony balustrade. Shown BBB PL 158-2. Japanned reverse with loop shank. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Beautifully engraved 18th-C gilt copper surmounted with a 14-petal pearl medallion and a silvered (non-metallic) faceted jewel. Copper loop shank. Est. selling price is $200-400.

A landscape with figures of a man and woman, composed of layers of carved natural material applied over a gessoed blue background. Copper loop shank. Est. selling price is $600-1500.

This charming ink and watercolor illustration on paper under glass is a 19th century made revival of an 18th century button. A young lad hugs a young shepherdess as she stands watch with her staff. Metal rim and back. Loop shank. Est. selling price is $400-600.

Highly iridescent blister pearl set in gilt rim with outer basse taille blue enamel border. Gilt metal rim and reverse. Elongated loop shank. Est. selling price is $100-200.

A large brass scene of a young Dutch couple dancing in the field, with windmill and boats on the canal in the background. White metal collet. Japanned reverse with loop shank. Est. selling price is $60-100.

This 18th century under glass features a reverse paint grid pattern with foil accents. Set in a copper rim. Copper loop shank. Est. selling price is $400-600.

A bold design of six hand-tooled triangular plinths, each topped with a tooled fruit-like element. Copper loop shank. Est. selling price is $200-400.

Spectacular button features a geometric glass intarsia border surrounding an enameled glass Lion of St. Mark, laminated to black glass with swaged-in shank. The motto is the abbreviated form of “Pax Tibi Marce Evangelista Meus,” which translates to “Peace be unto you, Mark, my Evangelist.” Est. selling price is $600-1500.