I got some buttons - I could use some help WARNING - lots of photos

The only ones familiar to me are those in the second picture. My grandmother had troodles of those!

Have you read the three books by the button collector lady?

 

OMG... another fun thing to collect... you could keep and display your collection in a terrific jewelry box that has lots of earring rows and brooch pockets. #2 buttons are shows-stoppers. Are those rhinestones, or ??????? Beautiful. Would be amazing down the back of a little black dress or such!

 

those are golf clubs with a golf ball....
and the ivory could be for a coat....

 

I think they are field hockey sticks.

 

i don't think so....

 

Apologies that I cannot help you with buttons. I'd put BOTH words (hockey and golf) - with question marks - into the sticks buttons listing and let it go on eb - but only after you can get good identifications on the rest so that you'll have more than one lot to offer potential buyer(s).

 

You're welcome, but no....they're not either....they're golf buttons.

 

They do look like they came off of a girl's sports tunic/uniform, so I vote for field hockey.

 

Ahhh, yer jest looking to push my buttons !!!

 

"Golf Clubs of America" and on the one with the blue banner (which has a streak of light so I can't see all the letters) the two clubs have different heads. And, sorry, it has been a long time, so I forget what they are fore (sic).

As for the buttons in picture two, they are typical shirt buttons, made of shell (note purple streaks).

Any shirt of my grandfather's, deemed no longer wearable, was denuded of its buttons (for replacement use), cut into pieces which became dust rags, aprons, (if patterned, the trimmings on aprons (or dish towels, etc), silver polishing cloths, etc., etc.

 

Hi,
Have to agree with Silver on the #2 buttons. They were made from the tens of thousands of mussel shells from the Mississippi River. Some times you find purple streaks some times brown streaks.
greg

 

The first buttons aren't whistles, although #6 are.

 

I like those enamel buttons, but then I like enamels. That middle one on the bottom row: does it show a Japanese figure? (Just fishing for a close-up.)

 

Sort of a confetti effect. From a distance it looked like it might be a samurai with a red helmet strapped to his head.

 

L@@k!! I canz be da keywerdspammmmmer!! haha!!

Yes I think they are golf clubs too after a closer look.