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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 336438, member: 111"]They were most likely all intended to be used on women's clothing - the bees look like metal-coated plastic novelty buttons, probably mid 20th century; the stamped brass horseshoe motif buttons would date from roughly the last third of the 19th century, though they might date a decade or so into the 20th, both appear to have celluloid inserts; the little MOP acorns, which would date about the same as the horseshoes, are the most interesting to my eye, 'Paris-backs' are a collecting category on their own... </p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 336438, member: 111"]They were most likely all intended to be used on women's clothing - the bees look like metal-coated plastic novelty buttons, probably mid 20th century; the stamped brass horseshoe motif buttons would date from roughly the last third of the 19th century, though they might date a decade or so into the 20th, both appear to have celluloid inserts; the little MOP acorns, which would date about the same as the horseshoes, are the most interesting to my eye, 'Paris-backs' are a collecting category on their own... ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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