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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 1492272, member: 111&quot;]Though I&#039;d always loved digging around in my Mom&#039;s button tin, started collecting buttons when I was 15 (long time ago!) and my great, great Aunt Karen gave me a huge jar filled with her buttons.&nbsp; It was similar to yours, with buttons ranging from the late 19th century into the mid 20th - and doubt there are any beyond the &#039;50s, if that late.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My button books are all packed away, but can tell you what I see - in the first pic there are some utilitarian buttons, like for pants, shirts, underwear, etc,, made of metal, bone, MOP, vegetable ivory, plastic, etc.; the carded buttons are collectible, the yellow and red cylinder shaped might be catalin, and that box of bits looks interesting, with a couple of cut-steel or faux cut-steel (stamped) buckles that should date to around the 1st quarter of the 20th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second pic&#039;s &#039;jets&#039;, though called that, are rarely actually jet, but black glass, yours are likely late 19th century; the red bits are most likely early 20th century Bohemian/Czech glass, sew-on beads/dress ornaments, both button and bead collectors might collect them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your great-Grandmother&#039;s buttons in the third pic would indeed date around the last quarter of the 19th century, they are &#039;steel cups&#039;, the layered materials on yours look like brass and copper, held in place by a cut-steel rivet.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fourth pic tin looks to be common MOP (mother of pearl) buttons, other than the tannish ones at lower left which might be pressed horn.</p><p><br /></p><p>Last has coat buttons, all but the black one at lower left appear to be celluloid, probably date around the 1920s-&#039;40s.</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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