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September,1951 NATIONAL BUTTON BULLETIN 283

As no complaints wele received on parcels returned from the Kansas
City Show vr'e expect to use the same kind of tape and the same system for
this Shov'. We need more volunteers on the paching and shipping committee.
HERMAN O. ZANDER, Shipping Committee Co-Chm.

SEVERAL KATE GREENAWAY IDENTIFICATIONS

THE} CHRJSITS}NING
By CAROLINE A. STUTZ and ETHEL McPHAIL
In the March, 1950, BULLETIN, p. 80, we presented
three newly made Kate Greenaway buttons and made
the following statement--"The designs of these three
buttons have never been found among the old Kate
Greenaway buttons. It would be interesting if we could
learn rvhy since these newly made buttons are fully as
attractive as the old ones. Dicl the popularity of I(ate
Greenaway last only a short time or was it more.profit-
able for the manufacturers to use only a few designs?"
Now we know that at least one of them was made
in the days of Kate Greenaway's popularity. In May, Mrs. Harold P. Eby
wrote that she had just bought a, srna,ll old button like "The Christening"
pictured in March 1950 N. B. B. Immediately we wrote asking her to send
this button to our editor for photographing. Both Mrs. McPhail and I were
fortunate in acquiring similar buttons for our collections.
This little button is 7s inches in diameter and made of brass in open
work design. The brass has the sheen of old buttons which is unlike that
of the newly made ones. 1Here, the button is enlarged).
I(. G. BUTION DEPICfSI NI'\v VERSION OF,'PO,I/LY AND SUSY

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A new version of "Polly and Susy" has come to light. In fact two but-
tons have been photographed which differ very slightly and we believe them
to be picturing the same two little girls. The poem "Polly and Susy" ap-
pears in Under The !!'indow, by Kate Greenaway, published by George Rout-
ledce & Sons, London. In No. 3, we show a photostatic print of the little
girls in full length-this heads the page. In No. 4, you see the metal but-
ton recorded in the BUTTON BULLETIN, November 1949, p. 368, No. 3.
The newly pictured buttons, Nos. 1 and 2, are black glass with gold
luster outline and ornamentation. They are shown in exact size. The pic-
ture is molded in outline and designed similarly to the "Tabby with Fan"
shown as No. 4 on the above mentioned page. In button No. 1, we see the
bows on the bonnets exactly as in the photostat while in button No.2, they
do not occur. We have seen one other version of this button and hope to
be able to reproduce it at a later date.