21 small to large mostly Kate Greenaway inspired pictorials, along with a few other pictorials. 17 19th C. metal buttons, 1 Div. I black glass, 2 Battersea pewters, and one jasperware ceramic studio. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#2 Goody Card #1
A mixed lot of 20 interesting buttons sized medium to large including a bakelite tomato, a celluloid potted plant, a casein plant, a gold tinted brass bird under umbrella, a rose painted porcelain, a woodback Rampant Lion, a reverse-painted applejuice bakelite, a two-color laminated bakelite shape, a polished agate sew-thru, and others. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#3 Shiny and Lustered Black Glass
An attractive card of 42 small to medium black glass, both Div. I and Div. III, with shiny and matte finish, silver and gold luster. Pictorials include horseshoe buckle, cottages, castle atop a hill, and plum. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#4 Mixed Glass
Lots of choice glass on this card of 30 small to medium mixed glass from the late 19th century and first half of the 20th century. Includes various colors, Victorian, Art Deco, painted, lustered, and glass in glass. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#5 19th Century Pearls
35 small to large pearls from the late 19th century with various engraved designs, steel embellishments, and coloring. Several are mounted in brass. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#6 Floral Delights
A fun card with bountiful blooms in buttons of various materials and ages. Includes Damascene clematis, ceramic poppies, aluminum enamel poinsettia, pewter tiger lily, iris satsuma, and others. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#7 Colorful Enamels
35 diminutive, small, and medium enamels including both 19th and 20th century examples. Various techniques are displayed including champleve, emaux peints, and basse taille. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#8 Small Pictorials
42 small, mostly Div. I brass pictorials, including many hard to find. A nice selection of heads on this card including a scarce realistic female head. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#9 70 Colorful Glass
A pretty card of 70 clear and colored modern glass in colors of white, blue, pink, green, aqua, and yellow. Includes a set of 10 small floret shape with paste center (one has a tiny chip on one petal). Also included are moonglows, and two dimi size aqua glass. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#10 30 Moonglows
Thirty modern small to medium moonglows in various colors. Great choices for competition including ladybug realistic, paste embellished, luster DFs, square and oval shapes, and a sew thru. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#11 25 Art Deco
A striking card of 25 modern small to medium Art Deco glass. Includes both linear and contour shapes, sew-thrus, and gold and silver luster DFs. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#12 CC Glass Assortment
42 Div. III clear and colored glass, small to medium size. Includes linear shapes, pierced, sew-thru, paste embellishment, moonglows, luster and paint DFs, and a glass in glass inset. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#13 25 BG Imitation Fabric
A great card of 25 small to medium black glass, mostly Div. I, in various designs imitating fabric and threadwork. Includes various color finishes. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#14 24 Fun Wood Buttons
A fun card of 24 Div. III wood buttons including realistic, linear, and contour shapes, paint and dye DFs, thread, brass, and bakelite OMEs, pierced and sew-thrus. Great buttons for your next wood competition! Est. selling price is $30-60.
#15 25 Angels, Cherubs, Gnomes
An endearing card of 25 pictorials featuring angels, cherubs, cupids, and gnomes. Includes 19th C. brass pictorials, a garden gnome on plastic (from a scarce set), painted wood sew-thru, porcelain transfer, cold enamel, fabric, and realistics. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#16 25 Insects
Beetles, Bees, Wasps, Butterflies, and other Bugs! 25 small to large great insect buttons in various materials including brass, glass, ceramic, plastic, fabric, pearl, polymer clay. Includes a 19th C. rebus “Don’t Bee Cross”. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#17 25 Elephants and Horses
A nice assortment of materials on this card featuring 25 small to X-large elephant and horse buttons. Includes painted V.I., crochet work embellished with beads, ceramic, wood, plastic, Niello, Artid, aluminum, Danforth pewter, glass, and others. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#18 20 Ship and Boat Buttons
20 small to large buttons to send you traveling over the waters in grand three-masted sailing ships, river navigation on a steamship, backwater exploration in a canoe, joining cupid in a seashell transport, and more. Includes porcelain, celluloid, glass, pewter, wood, brass, and others. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#19 Roosevelt Hunting Set
This decorated card features the set of three medium stamped brass depicting Theodore Roosevelt with big game in Africa. Shown BBB PL 212-7. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#20 20 Pictorials
20 fine medium to large metal pictorials, mostly from the 19th century. Includes Cleopatra, The Wishing Well, Chariot Rider, Lohengrin’s Farewell, Girl in a Straw Hat, Salamander, Doe in the Forest (woodback), Village Blacksmith, and others. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#21 45 Dyed Pearls
A colorful card of small to medium dyed pearl in every color of the rainbow. Various linear shapes and carved patterns. Est. selling price is $10-30.
#22 22 Various Pearls
A variety of 22 pearl buttons, most from the late 19th century. Sized medium to large. Carved, pierced, pinshanks, paste embellishment, realistic and contour shape included. Est. selling price is $10-30.
#23 Pearl Pictorials
A dozen medium to large pearls or pearl in metal with 10 pictorial escutcheons including anchors, pearl leaf, wasp, silvered leaf, Art Nouveau head, tennis racket, key, eagle, and sail boat. Two pearls have carved designs. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#24 Div. I BG with White Embellishment
35 small to medium Div. I black glass with white embellishment. Various types including enamel decoration, tile, intermixed, salt, nailsea with pearl inlay, cameo glass escutcheon, acid etched, and others. (Oops, one modern black glass moonglow found its way onto this card!) Est. selling price is $60-100.
#25 25 Medium Lacy and Fabric BG
25 medium and lovely mostly Div. I black glass with lacy and imitation fabric and threadwork designs. Included are luster finishes, and two linear shapes. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#26 Div. I BG Openwork
30 Div. I small black glass buttons with openwork designs. Includes one with silver luster and two sew-thrus. A card like this is not easy to assemble. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#27 20 BG Pictorials
20 Div. I black glass pictorials including Castles, Basket of Tools, two Birds on a Branch, Minerva, Lily of the Valley, Basket with Flowers, Grapes and Foliage, Dove, Fantastic Beast, Buckles, classical Jugate Heads and other Portraits, Gryphon, Millhouse, and others. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#28 Mixed Materials Dimis
42 Diminutives in mixed materials from the 19th century to modern. Includes BG and CC glass, glass in glass, composition, horn, china, painted brass, pearl, V.I., glass in metal, enamel, tinned metal, and others. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#29 Vintage 2-Piece Paperweights
40 colorful small (including several dimis) vintage 2-piece glass paperweights. Includes several linear shapes and many reverse painted floral designs. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#30 Mixed Material Black and White
35 fun and stylish black and white (or black and cream) buttons in various materials. Includes celluloid, glass, plastic, china, and pearl. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#31 China Collection Card #1
The next three lots are from an old collection out of upstate New York. This card has 70 china buttons including calicos, stencils, bullseye, banded, hobnail and piecrust rims, various lusters, and painted face. Also a metal rimmed hobnail. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#32 China Collection Card #2
Another card of 70 chinas from an old collection. This card includes solid color, calicos, stencils, banded, birdcage shanks, a whistle, a two-hole and a three-hole dimi, and several lusters. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#33 China Collection Card #3
Here is the third card of chinas from the old collection. This card has 70 china buttons including a banded dimi and a medium bird-cage shank. Calicos, stencils, banded, solid color, lusters, and others. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#34 A Dozen Enamels
A dozen delightful enamels from the late 19th century. These 12 medium size enamels include pierced designs, cut steel embellished, an oval and a dome shape, champleve and emaux peints. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#35 Victorian Era Trio
Three medium to large Victorian era buttons including a lithograph portrait with celluloid shield in a fancy brass border, a tinted ivoroid titled “Lucy and Edgar”, and a perforated celluloid with silvered stars. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#36 Enamel Group
10 medium size enamels from the late 19th century include a charming Cherub playing a lute with cut steel border, an emaux peints butterfly with rococo border, a set of six Gothic style enamels, a pierced design with cut steels, and a domed design with interesting overlapping border sections. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#37 Victorian Celluloids
A fine card of 25 small to large Victorian celluloids from the late 19th century. Includes ivoroid and other pictorials, pierced, sew-thru, lithographs, perforates, tight-top, glass OME, and various tints. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#38 20 Steel Cups
A great card of 20 medium to large steel cup buttons from the late 19th century. Includes various floral pictorials, patterns, and faux fabric and threadwork designs. Est. selling price is $200-400.
#39 42 19th C. Enamels
A lovely card of 42 enamels from the late 19th and early 20th century. Included are several matched pairs, and set of matched 10, a mother/daughter pair, Gothic, Art Nouveau, and Arts & Crafts designs, insect pictorials, floral pictorials, two small steel cups, matte finish, and a buckle. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#40 19th C. Stories and Other Pictorials
A wonderful card of 16 pictorial buttons from the late 19th century. Includes Heidi, Fairy with Leafy Collar, Flora and the Hind Ivoroid, The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg, Tom Thumb Riding the Butterfly, Cupid Driving a Team of Swallows, Children at the Well, Cupid in a Shell Boat, Rumplestiltskin (screenback), Woman with Spindle, The Pied Piper, and others. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#41 Beatrix Potter Set
Here is the increasingly sought-after set of Beatrix Potter characters pictured on 12 plastic buttons originally distributed by the JHB company. This decorated card also includes two cold-enamel metal JHB buttons of Potter characters. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#42 Oriental Group
5 Oriental and Oriental themed buttons including 3 Japanese Satsumas featuring botanical designs of iris, tree foliage, and bamboo. Also a large enamel depicting Madame Chrysanthemum. Next is a 19th C. choice brass pictorial titled “Oriental Wedding” embellished with steel shapes. The enamel has an offset applied plate and bar shank. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#43 Japanese Fortune Gods Set
A set of Satsuma porcelain featuring the seven Japanese Gods of Fortune in seated pose. Ca. mid 20th C. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#44 Satsuma Sets and More
12 Japanese Satsuma porcelain buttons including a 19th C. set of five decorated with a flowering peony tree and a tiny butterfly, a mid-20th C. set featuring a colorful pink peony and other blooms, and two extra large mid-20th C. buttons with floral designs. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#45 Japanese NOH Theater Mask Set
A set of six Japanese Satsuma porcelain featuring traditional NOH theater masks over a black background heavily accented with gold dots. Rounded shanks. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#46 FOP Group
Eight 19th C. brass buttons depicting Fops include three small, three medium, and two large size. Two have cut steel embellishment, and one has painted DF. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#47 Silver Quartet/BG Quartet
Four silver buttons including a duck head with artist’s signature on the reverse, a Native American silver, a hallmark silver playful Cupid, and a hallmark silver of the Waits, singing beggar children. The Cupid has London marks, date mark 1901, and a T.H. maker’s mark. The Waits has Birmingham marks, date mark 1901, and a maker’s mark N&H. AND Four 19th C. Div. I black glass buttons including a small with pearl inlay center, a realistic bow shape, Diana the moon goddess pictorial, and a pretty silver lustered lacy type. The bow shape may be a bundle of fasces wrapped with leaves, perhaps a symbolic representation. 1/16-1 1/4 Est. selling price is $60-100.
#48 Burwood and Goody Group
Eight small to large buttons including three burwoods, one celluloid Polo Player, one lucite with spirograph and dotted pattern, an Artid ship, a glass millefiori, and a brass acorn with pearl back. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#49 Brass, Horn, and Jewel Group
A dozen Div. I buttons include five openwork brass patterns, three horn portraits, a horn sporting with wolf head, and three Victorian jewels. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#50 Horn Inlays
Eleven lovely 19th C. inlays include five black horn, four natural horn, one red horn, and one white composition with either horn or tortoise laminate. Brass, silver, and pearl form the inlays. Three buttons also have gold luster and paint DF. The composition button has a missing pearl piece along the border. All others are in mint condition. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#51 Div. I Small Red Glass
42 small Div. I red glass buttons from the late 19th century including a round red Tingue with square center. Red glass is coveted and thus very hard to come by! Choice examples on this card include linear shapes, goldstone intermixed, incised designs with gold luster, and two metal backs with trefoil designs. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#52 Predominately Pictorial Goody Card
19 medium and large buttons with a great selection of 19th C. metal pictorials including Cleopatra, Daydreaming, Children of the Bacchantes, Two Warriors Battling, Tennis Player, The Letter, In the Doghouse, Jupiter and Minerva, and others. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#53 Div. I Pearl Card
A lovely card of 33 small to medium Div. I pearls, many with detailed engraved gold filled designs. Also included are two brass waistcoat buttons with pearl centers and a classical brass head escutcheon on pearl. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#54 Auroras and Moonglows
42 small to medium glass Auroras and Moonglows from the mid-20th century. Various colors and designs. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#55 Victorian Glass
30 small to medium 19th C. Victorian glass buttons in colors of caramel, aqua, and white. Various designs. Decorative finish includes gold and silver luster and sepia tint. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#56 Modern Vintage Metal Pictures
A fun card compiled in the early 1970s of 30 modern metal pictorials. Includes subjects in sports, transportation, animals, birds, insects, heads, and zodiac. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#57 Buckle Collection
A card of seven fine buckles from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#58 Div. I Mostly Medium BG
From an old upstate New York collection stored for many years, here are 30 Div. I black glass from the 19th C. of medium size, with one large paisley lacy design. Pictorials include Buckles, Peacock Feather, Castle and Bridge under a Crescent Moon and Star, Millhouse, Floral designs, and a damaged Girl with Dog. Also, a watch crystal with Star Design and metal backplate, and six-sided Box with blue enamel finish. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#59 Div. I BG Passementerie M/L
30 medium to large 19th C. Div. I black glass mostly passementerie buttons. These buttons are comprised of multiple glass parts applied to the openwork back. One large example has paste embellishment, a scarce find. Also included are several faux examples in both shiny and matte finish. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#60 Div. I BG Silver Luster
20 medium to large black glass with silver luster from the late 19th and early 20th century. Most have lacy type and faux threadwork designs, with one large Art Deco design. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#61 Battersea Alice in Wonderland
An awesome set of Sterling Silver from the Battersea company is comprised of five medium size buttons depicting scenes from Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland based on John Tenniel illustrations. Backmarked BATTERSEA 1998, STERLING SILVER, with the patented girl’s head shank. This set was produced in a limited edition of 500. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#62 Wessel Government Buildings
Nine large H.G. Wessel watch crystal buttons featuring polychrome lithographs of the eight different historical buildings that have been the site of of U.S. Capital in the early years of our country’s history, and a photographic print of the current Capital building. All are signed H.G.W. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#63 Acrylic Resin Winning Tray
This tray of 25 clear acrylic resin buttons small to large in size won a red ribbon at an Arizona State Show. Lots of nice examples here including linear and contour shape, and various OMEs. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#64 Mother/Daughter Mixed Materials
A fine card of 20 pairs of Mother/Daughter buttons in various materials including metal, horn, black glass, CC glass, V.I., and plastic. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#65 Bakelite
A fun card of 18 vintage Bakelite buttons in various colors sized small to large. Realistics include Dwarf, Container, Rope Bundle, Flag, Guitar, and Saxophone. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#66 Black and Cream Celluloid
A stylish card of 35 dimi to large black and cream celluloid buttons from the 1920-30s eras. Includes various linear and contour shapes, sew-thrus, and multi-part. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#67 Buckle Quartet
Four great buckles from the early 20th century including a Roosevelt bear and three “Adjustable Buckles”, including a lovely enamel on the original card. “The Adjustable Buckle”, in vogue 1890-1910, held the “waist, ribbons and skirt in place”. The buckle created what was known as the “Gibson Girl Dip”, a low blouse pouf at the skirt juncture. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#68 Nouveau, Pearl, Etc. Goody Card
18 great small to large buttons including a threadwork, three Art Nouveau Heads, old slag glass, a Lyre and a Fop brass pictorials with steel borders, a carved pearl, a green Norwalk pottery type, brass Mercury, golf button, two Red Cross Uniforms, a set of four large carved pearls with cut steels, and a pearl in metal. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#69 Horse and Equestrian Card
21 small to large horse and equestrian pictorials in brass, glass, reverse painted glass in metal, glass in metal, and a celluloid. Oops. . . one of the horses has stripes! Includes a cobalt glass horse head in brass small jewel. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#70 60 19th C. Pictorials
A big old framed collection backed with black velvet of 60 Div. I medium to large metal pictorials. Includes one buckle – a fabulous fly with cut steels – and 59 19th C. pictorial buttons including the L’Aiglon, Rumplestiltskin, Riding the Swallow, Charter Oak, Mother Bird feeding Babies, King Arthur, Owl on Crescent Moon, and others. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#71 Painted Metal Collection
22 dimi to large metal Div. I buttons with paint decorative finish. Includes two unusual openwork star designs with paste centers. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#72 Copper Card
25 medium to large mostly Div. II copper or copper finished buttons. Lots of fun buttons on this card including a realistic bug, a rectangular studio art face, Mexican copper, Native American, and others. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#73 Objects Card
25 medium to large mostly Div. I object pictorials. This great tray includes a bird claw with steels, a moveable door knocker, a garland decorated silvered hat, an oriental steel cup with steel shape, a realistic money sign, realistic key, fans and buckle buttons, a tortoise bakelite with airplane propeller, an oyster shell with pearl OME, and others. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#74 Great Big Buttons
10 BIG buttons, all over 2 inches! These X-Large buttons are great fun to collect, and this card includes various materials including ceramic, wood, fabric, celluloid, and bone. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#75 Livery Card
A fine card of 25 medium brass Livery buttons from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Images include birds, hands, fantastic creatures, and various animal and human figures. Both silvered and gilt finishes. Various backmarks. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#76 Work Clothes Buttons
25 working man’s brass workclothes buttons from the late 19th century with many clever logos including Boss of the Road, The Knocker, Never Wear Out, Blue Bell, Carhartts, Buffalo Brand, Balloon Overall, Wabash Coats, Pine Tree, Crown Overall, Lion Brand, Stetson, Cones Boss O’Bryan Bros, and others. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#77 Transportation Card
24 small to large Transportation themed buttons. Includes both Div. I, II, and III. Ships, Airplanes, Trains, Hot Air Balloons, Railroad Uniforms, Workclothes Verbal, S.S.Maine Commemorative, Jaunting Cart M/D, Equestrian, Satellite and Rocket, old Autos, and a Bicycle. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#78 Buttons with Steel Embellishment
15 medium to large 19th century buttons with cut steel embellishment. A great card including an Enamel Butterfly Steel Cup, a pattern Steel Cup with center Star, a brass Tree pictorial, a carved Pearl Star with cut steels border, a pierced brass Botanical with Crescent Moon, a Fop with cut steels border, and others. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#79 Victorian Jewel Card
12 large and showy Victorian era Jewels including glass jewel colors in blue, black, purple, green, orange, coral, and a dark green and blue stripe. The coral has a fleck of interior reverse paint missing, though the flaw reveals the interesting painted jewel construction. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#80 Overall Work Studs Card
38 metal workman’s overall stud buttons from the late 19th and early 20th century. Lots of great logos including PAY DAY, OSH KOSH B’GOSH, BIG AND TUF, E-Z ALLS, BIG HIT, BIG BEAR, TUF NUT, BIG BUCK, HERCULES, BIG BOB, KANSAS BRAND, and others. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#81 V.I. Card #1
35 small to medium Vegetable Ivory from the late 19th century and first half of the 20th century. Lots of nice examples including impressed pictorials, OME, various shapes, verbal, pierced, and paint DF. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#82 Vintage Commercial Ceramic Card
16 vintage ceramic buttons in round and rectangular shape with colorful glazes that were made by patients at the Blythewood Sanitarium, Stamford, CT in 1934-35, and sold by the United Carr Fastener Corp. The pink rectangular glazed button has a small chip on one edge. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#83 Bicentennial Jasperware Set
12 extra-large detailed green and white jasperware ceramic buttons portraying U.S. historical scenes made for the 1976 Bicentennial celebrations. By artist Shirley Shaw. Signed on the reverse “Bic. 1976 by Shirley”. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#84 Wessel Patriotic Set
6 large watch crystals buttons on a decorated card. These buttons, by the late H.G. Wessel, depict U.S. historical scenes on the paper lithographs mounted under the glass. Included are Washington at Valley Forge, Signers of the Declaration of Independence, The Liberty Bell, General Washington, and Independence Hall. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#85 Livery Card #2
17 medium 19th century brass Livery with 11 of them noted with the family name providence. A great assortment of Livery pictorials. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#86 Remington Shell Target Card
A decorated card of 33 buttons fashioned in the 1950s from fired Remington shotgun shells. These brass and copper buttons are in two sizes of 1/2” small and 7/8” mediums. Three medium buttons have the addition of a pewter turkey head escutcheon. Copper loop shanks. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#87 Mother/Daughter Card
20 pairs of Mother/Daughter sized buttons. Includes Bat and Crescent Moon, six pairs of French Tights, Goodyear Deer Leaping Through Target, Bird of Peace Velvet back, and more. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#88 Vintage White Glass
35 mostly white vintage glass buttons include a realistic leaf and various shapes, paint, luster, and pearlized DF, several pictorials, Art Deco designs, and more. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#89 Japanese Inrō and Netsuke
A fascinating carved wood oriental Inrō with a horse depicted on either side of the compartmentalized oblong shape. An Inrō is a traditional Japanese case for holding small objects, suspended from the obi (sash) worn around the waist. A carved horse’s head on the round Netsuke is secured to the cord. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#90 Cloisonné Buckle
A gorgeous cloisonné enamel buckle from 19th century Japan with a butterfly design and purple foil flecks. One butterfly is the reverse image of the other. 3×2 Est. selling price is $100-200.
#91 2 Sets Fortune Gods
Two sets of the Japanese Fortune Gods include a vintage plastic set with oriental backmark and a carved bone set with nice detail. Both have hand painted decoration. All buttons medium size. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#92 Satsumas
13 medium size modern Japanese Satsuma porcelain buttons include figural, floral, and landscape scenes. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#93 Steel Cups and Steel Embellishment
35 small to large late 19th century steel cup buttons and metal buttons with steel embellishment. Several floral pictorials and a shield with crescent moon and stars. A fine tray of this these types of buttons. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#94 Decorated Goody Card
A delightful frameable collection on an art print of an illustration of The Old Curiosity Shop from Charles Dicken’s novel of the same name. 25 small to large quality Div. I buttons decorate this Victorian scene (actually the pair of birds above the door are Div. III glass). Includes amethyst glass jewel with cut steels, turquoise mosaic, horn and ivory inlays, Art Nouveau brass over pearls, red glass in metal, and others. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#95 Black Glass with Goldstone
33 small Div. I black glass from the late 19th and early 20th century, all with intermixed goldstone. Various shapes and goldstone patterns. Brass, self, and whistle shanks. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#96 Paperweights
12 small to medium Paperweight buttons from various studio artists including a 2000 Millenium by John Gooderham, a pensive woman’s cartoon face by Mike Edmondson, a classic head sulfide by Teresa Rarig, a cone with goldstone by Francis Weinman, three speckled color buttons by Peter Ben, and several unknown others. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#97 Glittering Paste Plastic
35 small to large vintage plastic buttons from the 1940-60s eras, all with paste embellishment. Various colors and designs. Includes pierced, linear shapes, metallic paint DF, and fabric OME. Est. selling price is $10-30.
#98 19th C. Flecked Composition
This type of button has never drawn much attention over the years, yet it endures. These 46 small to medium late 19th century molded composition are decorated with scattered pearl chips, foil, and flecks of colored composition. One of the medium buttons has a fine red grid design. Various shapes. Est. selling price is $10-30.
#99 Treasure Chest Card
A Treasure Chest of Buttons in a Deep Sea Environment! Here are 29 buttons on this fun decorated card including various fish, seashell, a seahorse, a sand dollar, and coins. Various materials including coconut shell, pearl, polymer, metal, ceramic, and glass. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#100 Elephant Parade
Elephants! Here are 27 fun elephant buttons in various materials, sized small to extra-large. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#101 Containers
All shapes and kinds of containers were assembled on this fun card of 35 small to large buttons including a golf bag, a paint can, a shopping tote, a bird house, presents, flower pots, a baby’s cradle, a cookie sheet, pop bottles, a wheelbarrow, a cornucopia, a teacup, a tube of toothpaste, and more! Est. selling price is $30-60.
#102 Vintage Medium Glass
30 medium vintage colored glass buttons including various shapes and DF. Includes cowboy and pansy bloom realistics. Also Frog pictorial yellow moonglow and lavender striped moonglow with Est. selling price is $30-60.
#103 Green Glass Card
A lovely card of 20 old and vintage green glass including cute shoe, parrot, and seahorse realistics, reverse painted, two-piece glass, and paste embellished. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#104 CC Transparent Vintage Glass
29 small to medium clear and colored transparent vintage glass including various shapes, realistic bow and butterfly, mirror backs, and others. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#105 Openwork Glass
15 small vintage openwork colored glass in various colors and designs. This type is hard to find! Est. selling price is $60-100.
#106 Fabulous Fakes
A well-mounted card of 15 pairs of look-alike buttons, each in two different materials. Each material is labeled below the button. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#107 Vintage Clear Glass
25 small to large vintage clear glass with various shapes, OME and DF. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#108 Twinkles
22 vintage metal “Twinkle” buttons from the first half of the 20th century. Twinkles have a reflective back that shines through the pierced metal front. This card includes both contour and linear shapes, and a green mirror back and cobalt blue back. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#109 Vintage Celluloid
15 vintage medium to large celluloid buttons including wafers, various shapes and metal OME. Est. selling price is $10-30.
#110 Rarig Sulfide Paperweights
A card of buttons created by the late Teresa Rarig including 12 of her sulfide paperweights. The sulfide depictions are a Teddy Bear, Praying Hands, a Basket, Classic Bearded Head, a Madonna, George Washington portrait, a Cottage, an Ear of Corn, a Swan, John F. Kennedy portrait, and Jimmy Carter portrait. Also included are two signature buttons in porcelain. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#111 V.I. Card #2
A wonderful selection of 24 small to medium antique and vintage Vegetable Ivory buttons including stencils, escutcheons, engraved, impressed, and painted designs, pearl, fabric, and brass centers, and various shapes. The stencils include a scarce group of swallows. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#112 V.I. Card #3
Another nice selection of 15 Vegetable Ivory include a pierced, a realistic acorn and other various shapes, gate stencil, engraved paisley, verbal with initials RAW, scarce impressed pictorials of an anchor, clover, and classic head, and others. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#113 Paris Back Card
18 brass small to medium Paris Back buttons from the late 19th century. Most are French Tights. Various patterns and pictorials including a Serpent eating a Frog, Kate Greenaway children, a fable, and others. Also one has a twinkle background. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#114 Pearl Card
15 lovely small to large mostly Div. I pearls include carved and engraved designs, realistic butterfly, pearl in metal including a steel cup, pearl on pewter, and a striking abalone in wood. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#115 China Stencils Card
24 cute and mint China stencils representing different numbered patterns and in various colors. A scarce #7 pattern is included. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#116 Victorian Celluloid Card #2
15 lovely small to large Victorian era celluloid buttons including a scarce red Oriental Revival Poppy design. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#117 Div. I Black Glass Buckle Buttons
13 black glass buttons with various luster colors and buckle designs from the late 19th century. Lusters include aurora, silver, red, blue, and gold. Est. selling price is $10-30.
#118 Kaleidoscopes and Other Glass
48 buttons on this mixed glass card include many Div. I Kaleidoscopes, mirror back, charmstring, a large medium Lacy, two small lacy, and paperweights. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#119 Glass in Metal
A wonderful assortment of 24 small to large glass in metal from the late 19th century and first half of the 20th century. Note the high domed DUG with pearl center. Its high sides reveal a triple band design in blue and black. An opaline over foil center is striking, and the cobalt blue is also over foil. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#120 Coco Chanel Vanity Card
5 metal vanity buttons from Coco Chanel’s fashion line. Four have her intertwined Cs logo and one features the torso of a female and the name COCO CHANEL. This last button is backmarked ©CHANEL. The card includes a printed page history of Chanel. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#121 Small Black Glass Pictorials
42 small Div. I black glass pictorial buttons from the late 19th century. Includes Diana the Moon Goddess, Pierrot and Pierrette, Beaver, Salamander, Resting Stag, Deer in the Forest, Queen Elizabeth head, Lady with Fan head, Oriental scenes, Castle, Cottage, Birds, and others. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#122 Art Deco Buckles
9 fabulous Buckles from the first half of the 20th century including several Art Deco designs and a Twinkle design with reflective steel background. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#123 Animals, Insects, Birds
35 small to large metal pictorials from the late 19th century featuring animal, insect, and bird subjects. A great selection including dogs, cats, deer, a giraffe, horse head, running pig, squirrel, rabbits, bees, beetles, spiders, dragonflies, and a pair of long-tailed birds on a fountain. Several French Tights including artist’s palette with cat head. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#124 Div. I Heads
35 small to large late 19th century buttons in various materials featuring heads. Includes lithographs, a tintype in celluloid, horn, glass, and mixed materials. A great card of many hard to find types. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#125 Aqua and Blue Glass Card
30 small to medium vintage glass with most in aqua and five in blue. Includes decorative finish in paint, silver and gold luster, and aurora luster. Art Deco designs, floral pictorials, and various patterns. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#126 Lavender Glass/Glass in Metal
18 lavender glass and glass in metal from the late 19th c. and first half of the 20th century. Includes both transparent and opaque designs, crystal, various shapes, gold and aurora lusters, and others. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#127 Small Div. I Lustered BG
42 small Div. I black glass buttons with luster finish. Unique designs, mint condition Est. selling price is $10-30.
#128 Goody Card with M/Ds
26 goodies on this card of mixed buttons including 5 pairs of Mother/Daughters in five different materials, a cute painted wood Scotty dog, an ice fishing scene ceramic, a wood decoupage bird, two glow bubble celluloids, a pearlized glass realistic snail, an enamel early cartoon character, embroidered fabric, and others. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#129 Rossi Studio Art
15 medium to large carved wood creations from the imagination and studio of Frank Rossi of California. Utilizing colorful metallic paint, folk art style imagery, various OME embellishment, Rossi art delights and surprises. The gold fish has a magnetic opening that reveals a hidden scene and a “smuggler’s” compartment. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#130 Art Deco Glass
20 medium to large glass buttons from the Art Deco era of the 1920-40s. IN gray, green, caramel, yellow, burgundy, red, black, and white. Both gold and silver luster decorative finish. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#131 Silver Luster Black Glass
25 small to medium Div. I silver lustered black glass from the late 19th and early 20th century. Mint condition with many lacy examples included. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#132 Moonglow Card
42 small white vintage moonglows from the 1940-50s. All unique. Includes pierced leaf design, realistic ladybug, linear shapes, paste embellished, paint and luster finish, and intermixed colors. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#133 Small Div. I Pearl Card
70 small Div. I pearls including carved, incised, dyed, steel embellished, pierced, and pin-shank. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#134 Pearl Classification Page 1
The first page of a Pearl Classification showing examples of back types, various sew-thru types, and dyed and natural coloring. Est. selling price is $10-30.
#135 Pearl Classification Page 3
The third page (the 2nd page was missing from this collection) of a Pearl Classification including examples of ornamentation, inlay in various material, pearl under glass, various shapes and trimming techniques. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#136 Pearl Classification Page 4
The fourth page of a Pearl Classification including examples of working methods, and free choice selection from the original collector. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#137 Div. I Carved Pearls
24 medium to large Div. I carved iridescent dark pearl with conventional designs. Beautiful bygone artistry. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#138 Victorian Era Birds and Flowers
25 medium to large 19th century metal pictorials featuring bird or flower scenes. Many hard-to-find examples. Includes Screech Owl, Dove Pair on Cupid’s Quiver, Swallow Trio, Hummingbird, red tinted Duck, pewter Swan (modern), Tree Peepers, Flower Basket with Hat, French Tight Floral Basket, and others. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#139 Mythology
25 small to large late 19th century metal pictorials featuring mythological scenes. Includes Roman Gods Bellum and Pax, Jupiter and Minerva, Neptune, St. Michael, various Cupids, Erato, Aeneas the Trojan Prince, Aeneas and Charon Crossing the Rivers, Hippolyta, and others. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#140 Small 19th C. Scarce Pictorials
19 small Div. I late 19th century metal pictorials including many scarce examples: Finding Moses steel cup, Romeo and Juliet screenback, Sol and Luna, Buster Brown and Tige, Children’s Circus, The South Wind, Fox and Crow fable, the Fox and Stork fable, and others. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#141 Composition Head Big Set
31 small Div. I composition buttons in colors of mauve, blue, red, and gray, and black with the same molded female head design on each one. Shown in the BBB PL 19-26, 27, these buttons were originally on cards labeled “Duranoid” , a plastic composition from the Auburn Button Co of N.Y., ca.1900. Est. selling price is $10-30.
#142 Div. I Goody Cards
These two cards came from an old collection found in upstate New York. The cards are just as the original collector assembled them in the 1950-60s. Included are 19th century brass pictorials, horn, glass, steel, enamel, glass in metal, and others. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#143 Couples on Porcelain
Porcelain buttons from the early 20th century with polychrome transfers of romantic couples, and one handpainted floral porcelain. Includes a set of 5 oval shape set in gilt brass, a large size set in metal, and four porcelains with rococo gilt borders. Est. selling price is $60-100.
#144 Ceramic Transfers
9 large ceramic buttons with colorful transfers include a set of three children at play, a verbal with blue forget-me-nots, two birds with fancy tail feathers, two sweet bunny scenes, and a rural ice harvest scene with horse-drawn wagon. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#145 Bakelite Card
A fun assortment of 15 medium to large Bakelite buttons include various color, shapes and other material embellishment. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#146 Bakelite Realistics
14 fun medium realistic shape Bakelite buttons including three horseshoes, a hat, a glove, a flowerpot, a leaf, two pencils, an acorn, a banana, a pumpkin, a pineapple, and a carrot. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#147 Celluloid Wafers
15 medium to large one-piece celluloid wafers from the 1920-30s including several scarce pictorials such as the Palm Trees with Pyramids. Various linear shapes. A great selection. Est. selling price is $100-200.
#148 Prevue Movie Original Cards
Seven original card “Prevue Movie Buttons” from the early Hollywood years include cards with the photos of Jane Wyatt, John Carroll, Lucille Bremer, Fred MacMurray & Betty Caldwell, Gail Storm, and Joan Bennett. Est. selling price is $10-30.
#149 Realistics Card
25 small to large realistic shaped buttons with many fun selections in various materials including a bone butterfly, a ceramic turtle, a snap-together lighthouse and grand piano, a metalized owl, a porcelain Queen of Hearts, a ball of yarn with knitting needles, a ceramic doll, and others. Est. selling price is $30-60.
#150 Christmas Card
This last lot ends on a merry note with this decorated card of 30 small to large holiday themed buttons to ring in the Christmas Season. Includes an H.G. Wessel “Greeting” watch crystal, a related pair of porcelain Santa heads, a verbal “NOEL”, mittens, gingerbread man, Christmas trees, a french horn, and others. Happy Holidays! Est. selling price is $30-60.