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#1 Italian Micromosaic Tree Scene

Large trees, a classic temple structure, garden flowers, and pools of water form the intricate and detailed scene on this oval micromosaic. The mosaic is set in a large oval black glass mounted in metal. Est. selling price is $400-600.

Current bid: $1400

Next minimum bid: $1500

#2 Etched Steel Castle

Acid etched blued steel features a scene with flag flying atop castle towers, a man in a boat, and a tree branching over the water. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $346

Next minimum bid: $371

#3 Manor Scene Painting Under Glass

Under glass gouache painted scene on natural material depicts a large manor house in a pastoral landscape. Early 19th century. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $160

Next minimum bid: $170

#4 Kinne Moon and Tree Enamel

Cobalt enamel creates a striking contrast with the silver tree and pearlized moon on this large button from the studio of the late Kevin Kinne. Signed and dated on the reverse “2008 KK.” Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $381

Next minimum bid: $406

#5 Weeber Nest with Eggs

Three paint speckled eggs rest in the brown nest of coiled and twisted celluloid for this Marion Weeber design. Applied celluloid bubble shank. Est. selling price is $30-60.

Current bid: $75

Next minimum bid: $85

#6 Medium Rabbit Micromosaic

A white rabbit stands on his haunches on this Italian micromosaic in quality-marked (14K) and touchmarked mount. (Tiny opening on back was the jeweler’s heat-release vent.) Est. selling price is $200-400.

Current bid: $275

Next minimum bid: $300

#7 Aluminum Mushrooms Couture

Gilded aluminum mushrooms crafted in France in the late 1940’s from unused war machinery by Font Guyot, likely for a couture house. See examples of this in Loic Allio’s book, “A Button Odyssey.” We had a similar aluminum swan button in the last auction. Cast self slab shank. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $232

Next minimum bid: $257

#8 18th-C Mourning with Monogram

A finely detailed scene in sepia within an octagonal border on natural material features a monogram, garland wrapped pole, an empty arrow sheath suspended from a tree, and a building in the distance. A circlet of gold stars on dark rust color borders the scene. Mounted under glass with a copper rim and copper reverse. Est. selling price is $400-600.

Current bid: $775

Next minimum bid: $825

#9 18th-C Landscape

A tree on a rocky knoll is reverse-painted on the lens, and backed by a landscape of rocky outcrops, mountains, and sky. Note the two little white-walled villages in the distance. Est. selling price is $400-600.

Current bid: $675

Next minimum bid: $725

#10 Realistic Arita Ladybug

Realistic ladybug in Arita porcelain sports two orange dots, one on each wing. Backmarked JAPAN. Self shank. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $97

Next minimum bid: $107

#11 Beetle on Sheet Overlay

Hand-painted enamel-fired insect on sheet overlay glass. Fancy prong setting in the gilt metal mount. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $85

Next minimum bid: $95

#12 Gaumond Garden

A bright-eyed yellow bird and its two hungry newly hatched youngsters are nestled in a lavish garden in this gorgeous paperweight by artist Mary Gaumond. Signed and dated 2014. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $85

Next minimum bid: $95

#13 Basket By Hope

On a large basketweave-patterned, wooden sew-thru button, artist Hope Boltz added painted details to create the effect of a flower basket. Signed along with the dedication “To Sister.” Est. selling price is $30-60.

Current bid: $135

Next minimum bid: $145

#14 Bird on a Branch Matte Enamel

Lovely and large matte enamel of a bird, with wings upraised, either just landing on the branch or taking off. Pink blooms on leafy branches encircle the bird. Steel jeweled border in the gilt metal. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $300

Next minimum bid: $325

#15 Robin Engraving

A red-breasted robin perched on a branch on natural material by scrimshaw artist Wahaba. Her signature W is on the front lower right. Est. selling price is $30-60.

Current bid: $95

Next minimum bid: $105

#16 Lacy Glass Quartet

Four Div. I lacy glass including a scarce small oval, a small silver and black design, a medium with faux looped cord design, and a triploid clover design with bands of silver. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $550

Next minimum bid: $600

#17 Lily-of-the-Valley Watch Crystal

A square watch crystal design with lily-of-the-valley reverse painted over a pearl chip and mica background. By artist Nancy DuBois. Signed ND and dated 1996 on the reverse. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $176

Next minimum bid: $186

#18 Drum and Stage Satsuma

A da-daiko drum, used for Bugaku dance performances with Gagaku (Japanese court music), is shown on a decorated platform (stage) on this old Satsuma ceramic as a blooming cherry tree fills the air with snow petals. See similar examples in Satsuma Buttons and Buckles by Nishida and Allen, p. 263. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $250

Next minimum bid: $275

#19 Shell Cameo Scene with Steels

Large cameo carved shell depicts a female figure, structures, and trees. Prong mounted in brass with a border of cut steel jewels. Est. selling price is $30-60.

Current bid: $49

Next minimum bid: $54

#20 Two Orchids and a Mum

Three magenta blooms on three black bodied Arita porcelains include two orchids and a chrysanthemum. One orchid button is rectangular shaped. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $46

Next minimum bid: $51

#21 Arita Butterflies

Two Arita porcelain buttons: a realistic shaped butterfly and a square shape decorated with two butterflies and purple blooms. Both are backmarked. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $207

Next minimum bid: $232

#22 Aurora Lacy Glass

A lovely and unusual Div. I lacy glass with pink and white back paint features metallic blue and gold luster on the front wavy molded surface creating an aurora effect. Reverse silver paint is essentially intact. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $600

Next minimum bid: $650

#23 Deluxe Pastoral Painting

A charming early to mid 19th century gouache painting under glass of a shepherdess and her admirer in a pastoral setting. Painted in 18th century style on natural material. Set in silver with a silver rope border. Est. selling price is $400-600.

Current bid: $656

Next minimum bid: $706

#24 Rose Basket

Gorgeously painted Rococo watercolor on natural material under glass, basket of roses with a blue bow. Tooled gilt rim and brass back. Est. selling price is $200-400.

Current bid: $275

Next minimum bid: $300

#25 Abalone Butterfly in Silver

Brilliantly colored abalone shell inlay fills the surface of this silver realistic butterfly. Backmarked MEXICO ALPACA. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $65

Next minimum bid: $75

#26 Realistic Arita Mum Blossom

Lovely magenta shading on the many petals of this realistic chrysanthemum bloom in Arita porcelain. Backmarked TK within a circle. Self shank. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $191

Next minimum bid: $201

#27 Amethyst and Green Jewel

A center row of green pastes and nine amethyst pastes embellish this openwork design in copper with faux filigree stamping from the late 19th century. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $600

Next minimum bid: $650

#28 Limoges Butterfly

Foil-embedded butterfly. Textured foil shape fired onto cobalt-enameled base, with colored enamels fired onto foil. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $170

Next minimum bid: $180

#29 Morning Glories Japanese Enamel

A beautiful Japanese repoussé silver and enamel button featuring three colors of morning glory blooms and varying shades of foliage. Elongated silver shank. Est. selling price is $200-400.

Current bid: $695

Next minimum bid: $745

#30 Coralene Glass Irises

Coralene glass overlay on Victorian milk glass depicts iris blooms. Gilt rim has one very wee nick at about 12:00. Originally from the Jane Ford Adams (JFA) collection. Four-way brass shank. Est. selling price is $200-400.

Current bid: $705

Next minimum bid: $755

#31 Iris Satsuma Triangle

Rare triangle shape with purple iris on this medium Satsuma. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $276

Next minimum bid: $301

#32 Steel Sickle and Wheat

A beautifully detailed brass cut-out sheaf of wheat embellished with a steel sickle shape and steel jewels on the border for this openwork design. The sickle and sheath were oft used resurrection symbols in the Victorian age. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $70

Next minimum bid: $80

#33 Bridge and Tower Micromosaic

Exquisite and very fine micromosaic scene with stone bridge and tower set within a red glass border. Note how the water under the bridge shows the reflection of the bridge’s arches. Gold mount with quality pinch mark on the shank. Shown in “Buttons” by Epstein and Safro, pg. 125. Est. selling price is $400-600.

Current bid: $800

Next minimum bid: $850

#34 Dorchester Pottery

Americana schoolhouse or country church transfer scene on glazed stoneware from the Dorchester Pottery Works near Boston, MA. Designed and signed by Knesseth Denisons. This family run company, founded in 1895, continued operating until 1979, long past other commercial New England potteries had closed. Knesseth Denison was an artist employed by the company during the 50s. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $257

Next minimum bid: $282

#35 Small Bird Enamel Duo

Two choice small enamels with bird designs. An early one-piece white enamel with colorful handpainted bird and raised border scrolls has a rolled rim and counter-enameling. A blackbird silhouette scene is over a basse taille background of peach sky and blue water. Est. selling price is $30-60.

Current bid: $140

Next minimum bid: $150

#36 Brooks Thistle

A perky thistle design in pink and greens handpainted on light blue casein by the mid-century English artist couple, Edith and Alan Brooks. Est. selling price is $30-60.

Current bid: $80

Next minimum bid: $90

#37 Morning Glories Enamel

Lovely openwork enamel of morning glories climbing above and beyond a fence to the beautiful border of blued cut steel jewels. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $317

Next minimum bid: $342

#38 Georgian Goldstone Jewel

From the Georgian era of the late 18th and early 19th century comes this striking goldstone button with sparkling outer paste border and multiple pastes forming a flower center. Silver mount with silver shank. Est. selling price is $200-400.

Current bid: $300

Next minimum bid: $325

#39 Thistle Jewel

Fabulous Victorian-era paste jewel with colorless, emerald-green, and amethyst pastes in silver or silvered mount. Est. selling price is $400-600.

Current bid: $1689

Next minimum bid: $1789

#40 Goodyear Pansies

Rare pictorial rubber sew-thru depicting a ring of pansies or violets. Backmarked “Novelty Rubber Co.” in embossed letters. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $116

Next minimum bid: $126

#41 18th-C Threadwork

A three-color radial wound threadwork pattern bordered by a fourth color of maroon silk thread is formed over a thin wood disk for this late 18th century design. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $90

Next minimum bid: $100

#42 Motiwala Filigree Birds

Handmade gold-plated silver filigree from the Motiwala company of India features two love birds together on a branch. Est. selling price is $200-400.

Current bid: $127

Next minimum bid: $137

#43 Pietra Dura

Five white petals, a dark center, and the leaf form a Black-eyed Susan of the vining variety. Large oval pietra dura (stone inlaid in stone) in a handsome silverplated mount. Est. selling price is $400-600.

Current bid: $225

Next minimum bid: $250

#44 18th-C Octagonal Copper

Handsome octagonal copper with gilded inner border features beautiful hand wrought chasing and two overlapping squares forming an eight-point star within the octagonal shape. Est. selling price is $400-600.

Current bid: $325

Next minimum bid: $350

#45 Etched Parrot on Steel

Large and lovely steel in mint condition with acid etched and gilded parrot resting on a leafy branch. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $284

Next minimum bid: $309

#46 Lacy Glass Duo

Two medium clear glass Div. I lacy buttons. One has a four-leaf clover design with teal coloring and no reverse paint. The other has orange back coloring and fully intact silver reverse paint. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $85

Next minimum bid: $95

#47 Jeweled Peacock Eye

Beautiful domed peacock eye glass jewel with foil background prong set in brass with a border of paste jewels. Est. selling price is $200-400.

Current bid: $408

Next minimum bid: $433

#48 Pearl Peacock with Pearl

Fabulous carved Bethlehem pearl featuring a peacock with fully fanned tail embellished with a real pearl cabochon. Est. selling price is $200-400.

Current bid: $323

Next minimum bid: $348

#49 Orange Enamel Liberty

A Liberty & C. rare orange colored enamel on silver Arts and Crafts. Backmark L&C, CYMRIC with Birmingham city mark and date mark of 1902. Characteristic Liberty & Co. silver shank. Est. selling price is $200-400.

Current bid: $447

Next minimum bid: $472

#50 Foil Eye Black Glass Ball

Small Division I black glass ball with inset foil peacock eye with interesting striping color in amber and gold. Brass loop and plate shank. Est. selling price is $10-30.

Current bid: $50

Next minimum bid: $60

#51 Peacock Feather Habitat

A real peacock feather encased under glass and rimmed in copper by H.G. Wessel. Reverse signed HGW with wire shank. Est. selling price is $30-60.

Current bid: $60

Next minimum bid: $70

#52 Peacock Shibayama

Modern Shibayama in natural material features a relief inlay peacock display in other natural materials including the bird’s fabulous carved iridescent abalone shell tail. Engraved and tinted detail for the grasses and flower bloom. A stress crack at 5:00 on the rim continues a bit on the reverse. Self peg shank. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $275

Next minimum bid: $300

#53 Peacock Eye Gay 90s

A peacock eye centers the design of this openwork Gay 90s with a border of ribbons and leaves. From the late 19th or early 20th century. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $1910

Next minimum bid: $2010

#54 A Swan and an Iris

Fabulous Art Nouveau era button featuring a gilded swan and an iris on the darkened metal. The foliage of the large iris bloom and the swan’s wing shape the border. The button is also found with a shell background and was made for French designer Jacques Doucet, who created designs for actresses of the time, including Sara Bernhardt. Est. selling price is $200-400.

Current bid: $310

Next minimum bid: $335

#55 Arts & Crafts Enameled Silver

Large enameled silver design by William Hair Haseler, who formed a partnership in the 1890s with Arthur Liberty and launched their Cymric silver line. This button features beautiful aqua and teal colored enamel and a center pearl. Backmarked W.H.H. with Birmingham city and date mark of 1906. Est. selling price is $200-400.

Current bid: $250

Next minimum bid: $275

#56 Lavender Eye Jewel

Lavender foil eye jewel design under glass mounted in brass with paste jewel border decorated with tiny brass bead extensions. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $75

Next minimum bid: $85

#57 Comma Arts & Crafts Enamel

Unusual Arts and Crafts silver with enameled “commas.” London city and maker’s hallmarks on the front with date mark for 1903. (Additional info since catalog printing:  Maker was Florence and Louisa Rimmington, a niece and aunt collaboration.) Est. selling price is $200-400.

Current bid: $340

Next minimum bid: $365

#58 Arts & Crafts Plique

Plique a jour enamel flowers glow from a hand-cut & hand-engraved silverplated armature.  Est. selling price is $600-1500.

Current bid: $10099

Next minimum bid: $10199

#59 Peacock Eye Steel Velvet Back

A prong mounted peacock eye jewel centers this cut-steel jewel design backed with black velvet. Other steel jewel velvet backs can be seen BBB PL 29-1 and 2. The velvet has lost much of its nap. Painted silvered reverse with brass loop shank. Est. selling price is $200-400.

Current bid: $227

Next minimum bid: $252

#60 Related Bird Pair

Two medium porcelains feature a different pair of birds on each. Transfer designs with handpainted detail. Gold luster rims. Self shanks. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $120

Next minimum bid: $130

#61 Rabbit Watch Crystal

This oval shaped watch crystal by artist Nancy DuBois features a reverse painted rabbit against the pearl and mica chip background. Reverse is signed and dated NB 1996. Est. selling price is $30-60.

Current bid: $195

Next minimum bid: $205

#62 Tole Dish Shape

Black lacquered metal dish shape engraved and painted with a long-legged bird and birdhouse structure. Est. selling price is $30-60.

Current bid: $130

Next minimum bid: $140

#63 Lady in Red Bonnet

Painted porcelain portrait of a pretty lady wearing a red bonnet is prong mounted on brass and applied to a steel back with a border of spindle shape steel jewels interspersed with round steel jewels. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $140

Next minimum bid: $150

#64 Fruit and Flowers

Three medium buttons include a red bakelite raspberry, a Weeber celluloid of lilac blooms, and a wood with ivoroid escutcheon of grapes and foliage. Est. selling price is $30-60.

Current bid: $71

Next minimum bid: $81

#65 Birds, Nest, and Eggs

This medium brass features two birds at their nest with eggs against an engraved tole darkened background. Est. selling price is $30-60.

Current bid: $60

Next minimum bid: $70

#66 Miniature Portrait Gallery

Ten small enamel portraits mounted in brass borders and one diminutive enamel portrait, all unique. The buttons come mounted on an antique postcard of the drawing room of the International Eastern Star Temple in Washington, D.C. One portrait wears a veil in her hair. Several wear hats, including one with a wide brimmed reddish hat and jacket to match, who is the only fellow in the group. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $141

Next minimum bid: $151

#67 Wax Resist Lily of the Valley

A bone button with a delicate wax resist image of lily-of-the-valley on the sepia dyed background. Gilt finish applied to enhance the image. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $350

Next minimum bid: $375

#68 Georgian Porcelain

Hand-painted Continental porcelain with hand-painted purple asters. Paste-jeweled pin-shank with silvered dome-shaped shank plate. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $675

Next minimum bid: $725

#69 Jeweled and Enameled Iris

Large and deluxe openwork enameled iris with a glittering border of paste jewels in the silver or silvered metal quality framework. Est. selling price is $400-600.

Current bid: $490

Next minimum bid: $515

#70 Sunflower French Tight

This eight-sided French Tight features a sunflower on a bamboo trellis against a textured background. Four steel jewels embellish the design. Reverse backmarked T.W.&W HM PARIS BREVETTE. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $70

Next minimum bid: $80

#71 A Tulip and a Lily Aritas

A realistic shaped tulip bloom and a blue glazed rectangle with a lily, both in Arita porcelain. Both are backmarked. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $170

Next minimum bid: $180

#72 A Potted Iris

A large brass featuring a potted iris in relief, by Faith Strobel. Signed F.S. on the reverse. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $135

Next minimum bid: $145

#73 Elegant Carnation

This pretty openwork brass features a silver painted carnation and paste jewels embellishing the border. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $45

Next minimum bid: $50

#74 Black Glass Jewel Gay 90’s

A faceted black glass jewel tops this openwork brass decorated with both steel jewels and four small black glass jewels. Paint finish applied on the outer border. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $90

Next minimum bid: $100

#75 Jeweled Related Pair Portraits

Two pretty lady lithograph portraits set under glass and framed with a border of paste jewels on these oval buttons. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $45

Next minimum bid: $50

#76 Small Wedgwood Domed Medallion

This Wedgwood jasperware with dome shape features a daisy petaled medallion and roped rim design. Backmark WEDGWOOD. Est. selling price is $30-60.

Current bid: $65

Next minimum bid: $75

#77 Georgian Five Hole Natural Material

Early five hole polished bone with turned rings from the late 18th or early 19th century. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $90

Next minimum bid: $100

#78 Portrait Transfer Porcelain

A transfer portrait on a rectangular porcelain button with hand painted scrolls around the border. Signed and dated on the reverse JB 91. Est. selling price is $30-60.

Current bid: $30

Next minimum bid: $35

#79 Velvet Back Steel Cup

Brown velvet backing for this conventional brass design mounted in a steel cup. Steel jewels, including a spindle shape, embellish the brass. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $195

Next minimum bid: $205

#80 A & C Turquoise Spindle

Spindle shaped turquoise gemstone mounted with stylized prongs in the yellow metal mount on this Arts & Crafts era button. Est. selling price is $30-60.

Current bid: $62

Next minimum bid: $72

#81 Pottery Group

Four pinshank Norwalk pottery buttons sized small to medium, and one small purple toned glazed pottery of unknown origin. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $75

Next minimum bid: $85

#82 Garnet, Enamel, and Seed Pearls

A fine early 19th century deluxe silver or silvered metal openwork design with garnet jeweled center, aqua enamel on the spokes, and tiny seed pearls inset in the border. Heavy wire U shank. Est. selling price is $200-400.

Current bid: $414

Next minimum bid: $439

#83 18th-C Ice Skaters

A playful and humorous 18th century painting under glass of three boys skating on the ice. One appears to be shivering in the effort, one plays with his shadow, and perhaps the other is catching sunbeams as they make their way around the ice. Gilt copper rim. Est. selling price is $600-1500.

Current bid: $3450

Next minimum bid: $3550

#84 18th-C Royal Copenhagen

Large 18th century white pierced porcelain button made by the Royal Copenhagen factory. Reverse shows backmark of three wavy blue lines and four-way self shank. Est. selling price is $600-1500.

Current bid: $777

Next minimum bid: $827

#85 Verbal Cat Livery

A hard to find image of a cat on a domed brass livery button, belonging to the Southerland family, with a motto “Without Fear.” Backmarked SIMPSON & SON, 63 SOUTH AUDLEY ST., LONDON. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $390

Next minimum bid: $415

#86 Porcelain Seasons Set

Set of four porcelains with transfer and hand-painted rural seasonal scenes. The buttons are still attached to a portion of the original French store card. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $100

Next minimum bid: $110

#87 Blue Burwood Penguin

Burwood penguin with original blue paint finish. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $92

Next minimum bid: $102

#88 Shell in Metal

A star-shaped escutcheon of cut steels embellishes carved grey oyster set in metal with a true rope-twist border. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $80

Next minimum bid: $90

#89 Winter Sport Scene Enamel

A rare square enameled button of a winter scene depicting two figures, one seated on a sled. Shown BBB PL 245-16. Steel jewels frame the scene along with an outer border of twisted wire. Est. selling price is $600-1500.

Current bid: $1500

Next minimum bid: $1600

#90 Tingue Duo

A black glass octagonal hexagonal (!) tingue  and a red glass square tingue. Est. selling price is $200-400.

Current bid: $80

Next minimum bid: $90

#91 Etched Shell

Double flower blooms against the “most finely-lined etched background ever” on this iridescent shell. Two-hole sew-thru. Est. selling price is $30-60.

Current bid: $35

Next minimum bid: $40

#92 Oval Turquoise Inlay

Quality button of turquoise stone inlaid within a silver wire design, not the typical matrix. Unmarked silver reverse with silver shank. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $60

Next minimum bid: $70

#93 Hamm Wood with Celluloid

Large Henri Hamm wood design with circles of red celluloid inset and pinned to the wood. Brass loop shank. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $225

Next minimum bid: $250

#94 Gilded Engraved Shell on Shell

A lovely white shell on dark shell overlay, both with gold filled engraving. Steel jewels border the diamond shape white shell. Two-hole sew-thru. Est. selling price is $10-30.

Current bid: $160

Next minimum bid: $170

#95 Old Beadwork

Old beadwork featuring tiny glass beads sewn all over the surface with colors creating a butterfly design. The button is constructed of a silk fabric covering a metal mold. Reverse shows silk gathered fabric and the brass wire loop shank. Est. selling price is $30-60.

Current bid: $50

Next minimum bid: $60

#96 Turquoise Spindle Lacy Glass

Lovely and rare Div. I spindle shape turquoise lacy glass. Inner back paint gives the glass a green color. Both gold paint and silver luster enhance the surface design. Four-way brass shank. Est. selling price is $200-400.

Current bid: $415

Next minimum bid: $440

#97 Day and Night Glass in Metal

A floral brass button with both white glass and black glass insets. The white glass is finished with aurora luster. Est. selling price is $10-30.

Current bid: $44

Next minimum bid: $49

#98 Fleur de Lys Gay 90s

Four fleur de lys bracket a green over pink glass cabochon with embedded foil in an openwork Gay 90s highlighted with diamond and peridot pastes. Late 19th or early 20th century. Est. selling price is $100-200.

 

Current bid: $255

Next minimum bid: $280

#99 Georgian Kite Fliers

Early 19th century decoupage and watercolor city scene with two figures flying a kite. Est. selling price is $200-400.

Current bid: $426

Next minimum bid: $451

#100 Glass Owl Head in Brass

A caramel glass owl head in relief mounted in yellow metal rim and gilded reverse. Pink glass eyes and painted detail enhance the owl. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $46

Next minimum bid: $51

#101 Gin Bari Butterflies

Exquisite butterfly decorated Gin Bari enamel mounted in silver with a scalloped rim. Est. selling price is $200-400.

Current bid: $120

Next minimum bid: $130

#102 Burwood/Syrocco Dragon

A fierce dragon in molded wood composition. Inserted metal loop shank. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $375

Next minimum bid: $400

#103 Georgian Golden Cockerel

Gold and silver form a detailed image of a golden cockerel crowing at the morning sun. From the late 18th or early 19th century. Early swaged-in shank. Est. selling price is $600-1500.

Current bid: $575

Next minimum bid: $625

#104 Gin Bari Morning Glories

A beautiful Gin Bari enamel featuring two morning glories in different colors. Mounted in silver with a silver shank. Est. selling price is $200-400.

Current bid: $210

Next minimum bid: $235

#105 Early Silver Jewels

Two small early silver repoussé buttons. One is set with a sparkling green jewel (possibly peridot gemstone) in a beaded bezel mount and marcasite border. The other is centered with a clear paste, possibly quartz. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $80

Next minimum bid: $90

#106 V.I. Group

Five small to medium Vegetable Ivory buttons including a molded pinwheel design with paste center, a stenciled tile pattern, a hexagon with inset pearl center, a molded triploid pattern sew-thru, and a stenciled daisy scene whistle shank. Est. selling price is $30-60.

Current bid: $14

Next minimum bid: $16

#107 Carved V.I. with Brass and Steel

A deeply carved Vegetable Ivory decorated with a brass cross escutcheon and center prong-mounted faceted steel jewel. Est. selling price is $10-30.

Current bid: $35

Next minimum bid: $40

#108 Paper Mache Rebus

“I Love You” states this oval paper mache Rebus pictorial originating from Russia. Handpainted, beautifully lacquered, signed and dated 2004 on the reverse. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $230

Next minimum bid: $255

#109 Horse French Tight

A large and desirable French Tight depicting a horse gazing over a fence. Nice detail. Brass reverse with self shank. Backmark SOLIDAIRE BTE. S.G.D.G., A P & CIE PARIS. Est. selling price is $30-60.

Current bid: $95

Next minimum bid: $105

#110 Silver Jensen Horse Head

Small sterling silver button with a horse head designed by Danish silversmith Georg Jensen. Backmarks DENMARK with Georg Jensen logo marks and silver quality marks. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $150

Next minimum bid: $160

#111 18th-C Screen Face

A fine copper mesh screen decorates the surface of this 18th century button. Rimmed in gilt copper, the button has a coiled thread reverse. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $60

Next minimum bid: $70

#112 Golden Horse Bimini

This large modified spindle shaped Bimini glass features a golden horse on the gilt finished “thumbprint” depression. Backplate with backmark MADE IN ENGLAND with potted tree logo. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $102

Next minimum bid: $112

#113 18th-C Pastoral Battersea Enamel

Here is a most desirable enamel, the superb pastoral cow scene from the Battersea factory. This late 18th century painted enamel on copper with counter enameled back depicting two cows in a meadow is framed with gold rococo scrolls on the pink border. Est. selling price is $1500-3000.

Current bid: $3626

Next minimum bid: $3726

#114 Jeweled Horse

A stallion, perhaps a Lipizzan, in legs-off-the-ground gallop is enameled on black glass claw-set in metal (one claw gone). Openwork scalloped border of cut steels. (One wee chip near the glass rim at 11:00.) Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $1500

Next minimum bid: $1600

#115 Small Black Glass Pictorials Group

Five small Div. I aurora lustered black glass pictorials including a leaping stag and dog, an elephant, a lion head, two birds perched on a bird house, and a rat eyeing a turnip. Est. selling price is $30-60.

Current bid: $35

Next minimum bid: $40

#116 Artic and Other Carvings

A group of natural material carvings, most of northern Artic origin. Included are a polar bear head with carved self loop shank, a rectangular carving of a walrus on an ice floe with self shank, a realistic seal with brass loop shank, a realistic elephant with brass loop shank, a large realistic lion with self shank, and two large polar bear face trim pieces (trim hole attachment in the ears). Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $170

Next minimum bid: $180

#117 Black Stallion Portrait

A black stallion’s portrait, beautifully painted by Russian artist V. Romanov on this large wood with lacquer finish. Two rings of coppery gold luster decorate the border. Signed and dated 2002 on the reverse. Also backmarked with the Golden Cockerel logo. Wire shank. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $475

Next minimum bid: $500

#118 18th-C Silver Sporting Horse

A rare 18th century large Sterling silver sporting button featuring a finely engraved horse. The reverse is marked E.R. with an additional backmark. Heavy gauge shank. Est. selling price is $1500-3000.

Current bid: $2025

Next minimum bid: $2125

#119 DuBois Cow

Nancy Dubois’ engraved and gilded pinna shell, embellished with silver wire. The back is signed, dated & numbered (1 of 5), and the cow is quoted: “Mooooooo.” Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $429

Next minimum bid: $454

#120 Work Clothes Group

Six small to medium verbal work clothes buttons including Liberty Denver, Klink, Our Wheeler, Big B Brand, Fincks Red Bar, and The Lark. Wobble and stationery loop shanks. Est. selling price is $30-60.

Current bid: $26

Next minimum bid: $31

#121 A Butterfly and a Tulip

Natural horn with butterfly and tulip flower inlay in pearl, silver, and brass. Inserted brass loop shank. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $70

Next minimum bid: $80

#122 Turquoise Studded Peasant Silver

Interesting peasant silver with alternating rows of petal shaped bands and bezel mounted blue and green turquoise jewels around the circumference while a single jewel crowns the top. 19 jewels in all. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $170

Next minimum bid: $180

#123 Peasant Silver Dangles

Pierced silver cup with chased handwork design and wire scrolled border. A chain and flat disk dangles from each scroll. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $65

Next minimum bid: $75

#124 Peasant Silver Duo

Two peasant silver including a two-part dome with wire filigree, turquoise jewels, and paint decoration. Also, a heavy silver Maltese design with attached toggle. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $41

Next minimum bid: $46

#125 Big Salt Glazed Swirlback

A rare medium salt glazed black glass swirlback. Brass wire loop shank. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $47

Next minimum bid: $52

#126 Dancing Doll Animated Studs

This pair of brass rimmed under glass studs feature “jiggling” dancing figures. The cut paper dolls with a unique wire and nail stud mechanism are thought to have been made in 18th-C France and later utilized in these late 19th-C studs, according to an article by Peggy Ann Osborne, NBB October 1987, p. 137-139. The dolls’ foil dresses have fallen to the background over the years, and they now dance in their underpinnings. Est. selling price is $200-400.

Current bid: $75

Next minimum bid: $85

#127 Jester Head Steel Cup

Jester head with original tint applied to a textured background and steel cup with faceted rim decoration. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $145

Next minimum bid: $155

#128 Clown and Dog

Colorful emaux peints enamel of a little dog leaping thru a hoop held by a clown in a colorful Harlequin costume. Est. selling price is $200-400.

Current bid: $375

Next minimum bid: $400

#129 Circus Seal Under Glass

Circus performing seal is the feature of this watercolor and ink illustration by artist Tim Miller. Under glass with silver rim and silver reverse. Signed on the reverse APACHE with symbol and .925 quality mark. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $92

Next minimum bid: $102

#130 Unicycle Rider

Silver or silvered metal design features a female rider on her one-wheeled velocipede equipped with a front lantern and . . . an unrecognizable “bell and whistle” at the back end. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $90

Next minimum bid: $100

#131 Big Niello Fan

An openwork border and a pair of Siam dancers decorate this pretty silver fan. Quality marked. Est. selling price is $30-60.

Current bid: $385

Next minimum bid: $410

#132 Asian Tumbler

A young girl performs her gymnastic stunt on this engraved carving in natural fossilized material. Five colors of tint were used to accentuate the engraved areas. Self peg shank. Est. selling price is $100-200.

Current bid: $143

Next minimum bid: $153

#133 Handpainted Ballet Dancer

A lacquered wood painting from a Russian artist features a dancing ballerina. Gold curtains and stage set the scene. Signed and dated ‘96 on the lower right front. Inserted wire U-shank. Est. selling price is $60-100.

Current bid: $314

Next minimum bid: $339

#134 Head of an Asian Woman

Flat silvered brass disk features the high-relief head of an Asian woman, her hair decorated with a steel fan-shaped comb. Est. selling price is $30-60.

Current bid: $76

Next minimum bid: $86