Featured Buttons!

i know not strictly jewellery but there is a cross over. Buttons aren’t normally my thing but I think these are rather lovely.
Around 1.25cm sq. Enamel spots and the flowers are different so hand painted?
Are they unusual as I can’t find anything like them on Google?. Sadly one is missing some enamel.
Thank you

 

Yes, the flowers are hand painted. They are pretty. I always buy a tin of buttons at the carboot or rummage to see if I can find ones like yours!

 

Yes, they were in a tin I bought from a charity shop. Also found a little 9ct gold bar brooch hiding at the bottom so you never know what's going to be in a tin of buttons!

 

Is the centre flower decoration enamel too do you think?
Any ideas on age?

 

They are rather like a brooch I had identified here as Limoges. Between the wars I suspect.

 

Found this on the button queen website. Flowers look similar. Described as vintage, wait for others who will know more than me.
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Having just googled, you could well be right. There are a lot of similarities.

 

That is so close it can't be a coincidence!. Your internet search skills are superior to mine!

 

Well, I marvel at INH!
I would suppose there was a popular style of button around at certain times. I tend to find lots of 50s plastic ones along with the belt buckles but occasionally get some earlier bakelites.
I've seen nice pairs of buttons made into earrings and cufflinks.

 

French enamel - late 19th-early 20th century...

~Cheryl

 

INH is in a different league to the rest of us. Legendary search skills.......

 

Thankyou. Earlier than I thought!

 

Here's a page showing a variety: http://vintagebuttonemporium.com/category/37652-enamel-buttons.aspx

~Cheryl

 

These may have been made as cuff links and buttons simultaneously and sold both ways. I've found enamel button cuff links once or twice. The cuff links looked like two buttons linked together, and they were brass and enamel.

 

I didn't think of that but yes they could have been cufflinks, if a little feminine!

 

Women wore them too, at least for a while.

 

Every day is a learning day!

 

here are some buttons I found at an estate sale a while back, actually they were in the free box being thrown out. Decided to sell them and much to my surprise brought in over 150! perhaps I should have kept them?

 

I wear cuff links. Ma used to make nice buttons into links, and I've even had garments made specifically to show off buttons.

 

Buttons are a big collecting area and can go for surprisingly high prices. I sold a single Satsuma button in 2011 for $250.