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Hi All,
I decided to tackle a box of buttons that I've had kicking around for many years. Here are four pairs that I'm wondering about. Would it be best to sell them together or separate? I think these all have some age to them, probably early 1900s.
Any information appreciated.
Thanks for looking



#1 - these are marked AP & Co Paris on the back, what is the centre piece made of? These are not cleaned, but there is a bit of a shine that come through. You can see a line through part of one of them, maybe shell or stone?

#2 are bees or flies - would these have been for men or women?
#3&4 both have horseshoes - would these have been for men or women?

 

Bees...should find a good home for either gender.
Same with the horseshoes....both gender ride !!

 

#1 - From the stripey one, look like cut from shell & meant to resemble pearls.
#2 - Bees
#3&4 - Either

 

Both genders need luck!

 

Thank-you komokwa and Bronwen Bees they are!

Should I clean/polish the shell?

 

your choice......

 

Those are all great.

 

Thanks komokwa! my choice is always to sell as is but I wasn't sure on these

Thanks KOT! this is just the start, I have lots more. Some military buttons also, Canadian and USA.

 

Somewhere...I have what is supposedly THE book (old) autographed by the author(s).

 

Nice!
Not old really but I just got some snowflake buttons and I know I have some jets and others...somewhere. Long ago I bought a bunch of jets that had been made into pins and gave some away for Christmas back then. I must have more.
I have a set of red, white and blue tennis buttons I was going to put up on eBidet too.

 

you could give them a soft cloth...if there's any grime......or shine them up if they're going on YOUR sweater.....!!

 

geez, maybe I should keep them and put them on display like this. I have lots of single buttons and several of these frames kicking around.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-117...190037?hash=item2a9f79dc55:g:v~kAAOSwW6BaLaxI

 

a book on buttons?

show them here is you like! They won't sell if you don't list them

Yes, I'll give them a wipe as there is some grime on them.

 

Yep. Wouldn't assume it's safe to soak them the way I do most cameos, & for collectors no doubt better to leave the metal as is, but can't hurt to bring up the lustre a little. This is a case where a speck of toothpaste might be helpful, rubbed in & wiped off with a soft cloth.

 

Yes. It’s quite an old book. It’s been packed away for years now but I knew it was a score when found.
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I think I showed them once before. But I will if I can find them soon. Nothing spectacular. I bought them to sell. They may be 40s to 60s.
I’ll shoor the snowflakes tomorrow and maybe more.

 

I can’t ring up the author’s name though I seem to recall it may have been by two people.
I say old, and though I do suggest antique, it may not quite be 100.
It may be 30s - 40s.

 

I am in to buttons as well, but only uniform buttons;

 

The only 'bible' on buttons is Hughes & Lester's 'The Big Book of Buttons', over 800 pages, first published in 1981, I have the second edition (packed away at the moment), published in 1991, and there was a revised third edition (2 volumes, over 1100 pages), published in 2010. They're all pricey, I bought mine at wholesale from the vendor when it came out and they only offered it at 10% off cover price...

~Cheryl

 

I got two volumes of buttons with family crests, but only the french, and it is not complete...
Expensive too, but I was lucky to get them for free, from a lady on a french antiques forum who knew the publisher...
The die's you can see here on the back of the books, where bought from me by the authors, many years before....

 

I am late to this, but very nice cxgirl.
Don't know bupkis about buttons but they are cool.