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#1 Ribbon Rose Basket
A lovely basket overflowing with embroidered yellow rose blooms and greenery against a pink satin background is beautifully mounted under a thick crystal set in a rose bedecked wreath brass border. Signed F.S. on the brass reverse for Faith Strobel. Loop shank. Est. selling price is $100-200.
Current bid: $37
Next minimum bid: $42
#2 Rose and Pansy Bouquet
#3 Pierrot and the Moon
#4 Cupid Velvet Back
#5 Lady with Fan Steel Cup
#6 Carved Cowrie Shell Pattern
#7 Paisley Velvet Back
#8 Arita Butterfly
#9 Enamel Puss N’ Boots
#10 Triad Jewel
#11 Foil Back Jewel
#12 Fashion Lady Transfer
A porcelain fashion button from France with a glazed transfer of an artist’s stylized drawing of a young woman wearing a fabulous hat and holding a cat. This is from a set of 3 designs made in the 1960s in France. Shown in Osborne’s book “About Buttons”, p. 236. Inserted wire loop shank on the clear glazed reverse. Another button from the set is Lot 41. Inserted wire loop shank on the clear glazed reverse. Est. selling price is $30-60.
Current bid: $12
Next minimum bid: $14
#13 Three Materials
#14 18th-C Octagonal Copper
#15 Bunny and Sunflowers
#16 Popper Glass Spindle
#17 Glass Bird in Wood Basket
#18 Shell Sunrise Scene
#19 Div. I Glass Plate
#20 Impressed Butterfly Swirlback
#21 Threadwork Duo
#22 H.F.M. Painted Poppy
A yellow spring poppy and emerging blooms beautifully rendered by Harry F. Meyers, china decorator, born about 1873. Reference article: “Rediscovering H.F.M. -42-” by Judy Stopke. NBS July 2015 p. 116-119. Another Meyers porcelain is offered in Lot #208. Molded self shank. Signed H.F.M -42-. Est. selling price is $60-100.
Current bid: $12
Next minimum bid: $14
#23 Colors of Ireland
#24 Japanese Metalwork Garden
#25 Liberty Cymric
#26 Carved Shell with Steels
#27 Paste Embellished Dragonfly
#28 Daisy Border Lacy
#29 ANN Jewel
#30 Brooks Flowers Card
#31 Polar Bear Scrimshaw in Wood
#32 Peary at the Pole
#33 Snow Globe Paperweight
#34 Carved Walrus
#35 Carved Scrimshaw Walrus
#36 Relaxing Woman with Parrot
Intricately detailed brass scene depicts a woman at leisure reclining in a hammock with a parrot perched nearby. Note the detail of the remaining slipper on her foot about to fall, the numerous folds of the blanket, and the wallpaper background. Japanned reverse with loop shank. Est. selling price is $60-100.
Current bid: $18
Next minimum bid: $20
#37 Large Arita Pheasant in Flight
#38 XLG Owl with Glass Eyes
#39 Rare Horn Fable
A very scarce molded horn known as a depiction of the fable “Philomel and Progne,” shown BBB PL 154-3, and based on a 19th C. illustration by Gustave Dore. A woman in a hat with spindle in hand is seated next to a sleeping sheep, as a bird flies overhead. Molded self shank. Est. selling price is $200-400.
Current bid: $115
Next minimum bid: $125
#40 Two Cats in a Sabot
#41 Fashion Woman with Bird
A porcelain fashion button from France with a glazed transfer of an artist’s stylized drawing of a young woman holding a birdcage with colorful parrot. This is from a set of 3 designs made in the 1960s in France. Shown in Osborne’s book “About Buttons”, p. 236. Another button from the set is Lot 12. Inserted wire loop shank on the clear glazed reverse. Est. selling price is $30-60.
Current bid: $8
Next minimum bid: $10
#42 Little Lord Fauntleroy
A boy and his faithful dog, a depiction of the Victorian novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, published 1886. At the time, the book’s illustrations set fashion trends for attiring children in formal dress, though perhaps not favored by the children themselves! Reverse shows repainted back with loop shank. A bit of missing rim denotes that this likely also had a buckle attachment. Est. selling price is $30-60.
Current bid: $17
Next minimum bid: $19
#43 Scotty Celluloid Wafer
#44 St. Bernard on Steel
#45 Cat Ceramic
A modified rectangle ceramic with a colorful cat framed by a petal motif border. By the Golem Design Studio of Bulgaria. Known for their high quality jewelry fittings, artists incorporate a variety of ancient and contemporary art forms. This button exhibits their quality work and attention to the hand processes. Self glazed shank. Stamped pattern on the reverse. Est. selling price is $30-60.
Current bid: $50
Next minimum bid: $60
#46 Realistic Shell Cat Head
#47 Victorian Rabbits
#48 Original Pavone Cat Card
#49 V.I. Unicorn
#50 Porcupine Livery
#51 Elephant and Lion
#52 Atlee Ostrich
#53 Pinna Squirrel and Acorns
#54 Shell with Dragon
#55 Strobel Bunny
#56 Shield with Bird
Interesting provenance comes with this button. The metal shield in copper finish is mounted with a smaller shield in natural material and adorned with a bird-like creature. In 1910, a set of these buttons was within a box of buttons purchased at a “thieves market” in France by a surgeon serving in WWI. Loop shank. Est. selling price is $30-60.
Current bid: $6
Next minimum bid: $8
#57 Dragon Shibayama
#58 Crab Original Tint
#59 Jet Rooster
#60 Aluminum Horse
#61 Engraved Pearl Set
#62 Pearl Sailboat in the Harbor
#63 Matte Enamel Portrait
#64 Purple Petal Jewel
#65 Screen Background Handkerchief
#66 Brass in Steel Paris Back
#67 Velvet with Portrait
#68 Velvet Figural
#69 Deluxe Gentleman’s Portrait
#70 Medium Micromosaic
#71 Steel Star in Brass
#72 18th-C Copper Fish Scales
#73 Helmet Shell Cameo Portrait
#74 Rose Window Black Glass
#75 Painted Portrait in Square Frame
#76 Jacksonian Washington Head
#77 Large Star Watch Crystal
#78 18th-C Silver Plated Copper
#79 18th-C Copper with Star
#80 Rock Crystal Repoussé
#81 Georgian Glass
#82 18th-C Copper Bees
#83 18th-C Wedgwood in Steel
A seated, robed male supports a tiny winged oracle as she adds a laurel wreath to a cluster of objects that, taken together, represent Apollo. Perhaps this is the Delphian Apollo, the guardian of the Shrine at Delphi. Wedgwood jasperware mounted in Boulton steel. Heavy steel shank. Est. selling price is $600-1500.
Current bid: $180
Next minimum bid: $190
#84 18th-C Reverse Painted Fisherman
Glass reverse-painted scene invites curiosity. A lone fisherman in military dress appears to be fishing from an island with a lone structure still displaying the effects of a recent battle. Copper rim. Iron reverse with copper loop shank. Est. selling price is $400-600.
Current bid: $160
Next minimum bid: $170
#85 18th-C Passementerie
#86 18th-C Reverse Intaglio Portrait
#87 18th-C Thread Weave
#88 Tombac Sporting Set
The huntsman sounds the horn and the chase commences . . . across field and stream. Horse, rider, and dogs are portrayed on this set of four engraved late 18th or early 19th century tombacs. Slight variation in size. Typical tombac shanks. Est. selling price is $600-1500.
Current bid: $200
Next minimum bid: $225
#89 18th-C Four Material
#90 18th-C Passementerie
#91 Three-Color Gilded Pearl
#92 Cobalt Lacy Glass
#93 Square Silver Paste Jewel
This hand-wrought modified square beauty is of high grade silver (jeweler verified and tested) in an openwork design embellished with four large chaton rhinestones and four smaller ones, each claw-set. Early 20th century. Loop shank. Est. selling price is $60-100.
Current bid: $18
Next minimum bid: $20
#94 Russian Lacquerware Pansies
#95 Silvered Black Glass Butterfly
#96 Victorian Opaline Glass
#97 Silver Water Lily Border Portrait
#98 Liberty Peacock
#99 Silver Peacock
#100 Henny Penny
#101 Cloisonné Enamel Ball
#102 Bee & Strawflowers Lucite
#103 Art Nouveau Framed Shell
#104 Bird and Nestlings
#105 Lucite Thistles
#106 Hibiscus Impression Inlay
#107 Lily of the Valley Border Jewel
#108 Gingko Leaves Brass
#109 Basse Taille Owl
#110 Glass Eye Parrot
#111 Leda and the Swan
#112 Dragonfly Jewel
#113 18th-C Wine Celebration
#114 Bimini Glass Muse
XLG heavily gilded oval Bimini glass featuring a full-figured depiction of the goddess Diana. The background shows dark in the photograph. However, it is actually clear glass over dark foil. Bimini backmarked plate on the reverse with loop shank. Est. selling price is $100-200.
Current bid: $42
Next minimum bid: $47
#115 Grapes and Vine Shell Overlay
#116 Screech Owl on Wood
#117 Enameled Glass on Shell
#118 Cobalt Glass Lacy Pictorial
#119 Jeweled Grasshopper
#120 Dragonfly Inlay Horn
#121 Black Glass Pictorial Trio
Three small Div. I black glass pictorials include a blanketed Elephant, two Birds and a Rain Barrel, and two Hounds – all with deep rich iridescent aurora luster. The birds have a deep groove self shank. The others have brass loop and plate shanks. Est. selling price is $10-30.
Current bid: $8
Next minimum bid: $10
#122 Big Tiger
#123 Regal Lion
#124 Arita Horse
#125 Cricket Cage Jewel
#126 Large Tole Work
#127 Georgian Pearl
#128 Georgian Balloon Painting
#129 Large Coachman’s Pearl
#130 Engraved Steel
#131 Elephant in Bidri
#132 P.T. Barnum’s Home
This brass pictorial features Iranistan, the house built in 1848 by circus magnate, P.T. Barnum, at a cost of over $150,000. Unfortunately, this Bridgeport, Connecticut home was destroyed by fire in 1857. Shown BBB PL 262-27. Japanned reverse with brass loop shank. Est. selling price is $60-100.
Current bid: $45
Next minimum bid: $50
#133 Lion Tamer
The antics of a lion surprise this clown on this beautifully handworked button by studio artist Anne Howe. Moveable circus “hoop.” Printed cotton fabric. Red Peking Glass ring. Candy stripe and red seed beads for the border. Black suede reverse. Loop shank. Reverse signature fabric badge. Est. selling price is $30-60.
Current bid: $62
Next minimum bid: $72
#134 Bakelite Circus Elephant
#135 Elephant Trio
#136 Victoria Taxco Silver
#137 Paper Lithograph Bee
#138 Filigree Spider on Web
#139 Butterfly DUG
Triangular design under glass (DUG) features a butterfly of iridescent morpho butterfly wing in a gilt silver mount. Original red leather case included (button originally from a set of three). Reverse shows maker’s mark, boar’s head silver standard ( for .800+ silver content), and BREVETÉ DANS TOUS LES PAYS (Patented in all countries). Loop shank. Est. selling price is $200-400.
Current bid: $70
Next minimum bid: $80