Vintage buttons antiques

Here are two interesting guides to shanks. I'm actively looking for the sources so I can credit these. Stanley J. Olsen entitled "Dating Early Plain Buttons By Their Form", American Antiquity, Volume 28, Number 4, April 1963. Pictorial handout.

In the early days, buttons were used as ornamental embellishments and signified status and wealth. However, as centuries passed, buttons evolved from embellishm

As long as antique buttons have adorned our clothing and shoes, people have been collecting them. Made from a multitude of materials - from metal to bone, wood to plastic - buttons are miniature pieces of everyday history.

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Plastic, wood, metal, glass- there are a LOT of vintage buttons out there. Thank goodness for button crafts like these to get you inspired!

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Learn about the value of collecting vintage buttons by taking a look at various types of buttons, bone, jet, and glass, for example.

The history of button making is an interesting one that dates back to ancicent times. Learn the early methods of making buttons from vegetable ivory, metal, button, horn, bone, and various other materials.

Have you recently run into a pile of old buttons? While it doesn’t seem too easy to identify whether they’re unique antiques or a pile of old junk, there is a way to identify valuable old ... Read more