Button Floozies

When I was going through buttons recently, I found one that had broken open. It's very old, and I thought you all would get a kick out of seeing the inside, as I did!

I found a coffee tin with a mass of all kinds of buttons. I pulled a few favorites out.  Here they are... Thanks for looking, and please comment.  Have a Happy Thanksgiving, Button Floozies!

I pulled these metal buttons from a glass olive jar of many buttons.  They were purchased in an antique mall in PA.  These really stood out.  Check them out... Do you have any information on these?

I really had to share this one  with all you BUTTON FLOOZIES! It is metal and clear lucite. In the photo it looks pearly, but it is actually clear.  The face in the middle is very detailed. I don't have any information on this unique button.  DO YOU?

To celebrate National Button Week, I'm posting some of my favorite buttons and invite you to do the same! Take a look at this beauty -- it's encrusted with bling and china beads. Doesn't it look good enough to eat?! As you can see from the reverse, its base is metal.  I would have loved to have seen the garment this button was created for!

Just wanted to share some of my vintage buttons I've been adding to some fabric cuffs recently. Most of these were given to me from various family and friends who know I love buttons-vintage especially! a sparkly rhinestone button plastic and glass metal buttons I'm not sure how old these are.Any ideas? I'm using them both as 'closures', and as decorations : ) the top one will be added to my shop soon, and the bottom one has been sold already (thank you : ) ~ you can read more about them on my blog.

 I snapped photos of this wonderful vintage costume at a friend's sale last month. (It is covered in plastic because it was sprinkling that day!)   Kathy  always finds the best stuff.  This costume is, she thought, was used by a Masonic group and was a reproduction of a colonial era man's suit... complete with hat -- and powdered wig! I wanted to show you the detail, with lace, gimp and buttons! Fancy pants !

My favorite antique store had a Spring Open House and I brought home this bag of buttons. It was only $1 and I looked forward to getting it home, to see if it held any treasures. Am I the only one who does that?   It's the thrill of the hunt. There were some teeny, tiny shell buttons tied together on a string (above, lower left.) They were a few of just a handful of shell buttons... among lots and lots of metal ones. The ones above with shiny metal that peeks through the fancy filigreed front are called "twinkles". Even though most of the buttons in the bag were rather plain, I still love them -- especially the little clusters tied together. I even found beauty in these wooden buttons with a plasticized cover, painted gold, that have begun to crack and disintegrate. This pretty silver-y button wasn't metal, but... black glass. It was a satisfying quest! It usually is.

Paying a visit last week to my favorite local antique mall, I really wasn't even looking specifically for buttons, but this is what happens when you keep an open mind. I came across a booth that had 11 little cards of antique buttons on a table, in singles, doubles, and one card of triplets.  I stood there for quite a while inspecting them all, wondering which, if any (!) to purchase. Not only were they lovely, but they also were rather ridiculously inexpensive. How often do you come across that? I picked out 2 cards--the ones with tiny detailed scenes and left the rest behind.   Well, I'm sure you can guess what happened... I couldn't get them out of my mind, rationalizing the notion of buying them all. You know how that is. So, about 10 or 15 minutes and 1 1/2 aisles later I told my partner-in-crime (my mother, that is) that I wanted to go back and look at the buttons again, to which she replied, "Well, yes, of course, go on." Managing to f...

During the Olympics, I wrote a post about sport buttons. All of the photos had a corresponding link underneath. Many led to shops where the button was for sale. One of them, however led to this British website: colchestertreasurehunting ,  which I thought some readers might enjoy. It came up in my search at the time, so I was unfamiliar with it, but intrigued enough to explore it a bit. I appears to be a club and they search for all kinds of metal bibs and bobs, as they say in the U.K., one of which are buttons. Most of them have been identified as well, which is fascinating. There is a long page full of ancient buttons and badges, such as these: boars head livery button shooting button with Latin inscription hound head hunting button and this one too, which I liked, but it had no ID.  There is all sorts of other interesting material on the site, especially enjoyable for a history buff. Besides history, their headings include hunting sites (usually farms whose owners ...