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has collected. Denver and his wife Eleanor have been promoting chinas for
many years, hosting workshops and sponsoring awards for china buttons at
NBS Conventions.

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of an R & C Company sample card frorn BJ's collection. At least nine of the
buttons depicted on this wonderfully complete care are chinas not listed in the
guidelines. Joy LeCount also shared her card of unlisted china buttons, which
originally surfaced at a flea market in Michigan in the early 1980's. Individual
collectors continued to come forward with previously unrecorded china buttons
and prime examples of rarer types of known chinas.
The event was fortunate to hal'e the r,'olunteer services of Colorado resi-
dent LeRoy Manley, who, assisted by his u,ife Joan and their Texan daughter-
in-law Lana Powell, photographed the buttons that participants had brought to
share. It is hoped that these photos u'ill mark the beginning of an effort to doc-
ument currentlrr unlisted china buttons.

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organizers chose to continue future efforts to promote the collection of china
buttons under the name of "The China Exchange." A website has been opened
an on online showcase for the beautiful and unusual china buttons that were
shared by participants at this first meeting. The Exchange has w.ritten and spon-
sored four china button awards for the NBS 2002 Convention and are also
working on plans for a beginning china workshop at the show in Omaha.
Related websites:

TH E CH INA EXCHANC, E (A cooperative effort of China collectors
exchanging information and news of china buttons)
http : /lwww. ange I fire . c o m/ tx 5 / c hinaexc han ge

CH INA CALICO BUTTCN5 (Jody Behrbaum's site devoted to the calico
button-from history to pattern identification) http :,/,/hom.pon. net/behrbaurn/'

CCLLECTI B LE CH INA BUTTCN5 (Judye Stewart's site picturing and cata-
I oguing china buttons ) http : //www'. geoc iti e s . c orrr,t' craftw'ks/