Buttons - art in miniature - a study in history as well as art and technology.

Are you interested in animals, glass, metal craft, fabric, wood, or Bakelite or Catalin? If you said yes to any one of these, there are buttons for you. Didn't find what interests you? There are probably buttons for you as well. There are uniform, military, as well as modern, oriental, and religious subjects. Theater, mythology, historical figures, and transportation are also covered in the wonderful world of button collecting. If you are a collector of paperweights, coins or Wedgewood, there are buttons for you.There are buttons of almost every material imaginable. There are natural materials as well as ceramic, shell, wood, ivory, horn, precious gems, and synthetic materials like glass, celluloid, Bakelite and Lucite. Come and join the wonderful world of button collecting and see what a vast store of history can be found!

NBS thanks Millicent Safro for the button pictures from her personal collection. Pictures copyright Milicent Safro.

NBS also thanks California member, Tania Owens, for designing our button logo.

 

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