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Green vintage buttons. Button collecting is the collecting of various types of clothing buttons.. Button collecting varies widely. In its most informal manifestation, a button collection may simply be the household button container, where buttons are stored for future use on clothing or for crafts.
Button shanks may be made from a separate piece of the same or a different substance as the button itself, and added to the back of the button, or be carved or moulded directly onto the back of the button, in which latter case the button is referred to by collectors as having a 'self-shank'.
Pilcher's Bachelor Button and box circa 1917. A bachelor button is a button that can be attached without sewing.It uses a stud pressed through fabric and into a top button. [1] [2] They were sold in notion stores in the late 1800s and early 1900s as an emergency repair button.
'Blandford Cartwheel' button. A Dorset button is a style of craft-made button originating in the English county of Dorset.Their manufacture was at a peak between 1622 and 1850, after which they were overtaken by machine-made buttons from factories in the developing industries of Birmingham and other growing cities.
Phoenix buttons were designed to be used on Haitian military uniforms during the 1811-1820 reign of Henry Christophe (King Henry I of Haiti, 1811-1820). These buttons carry the image of a phoenix bird , included regimental numbers and were, “made of a good grade brass”.
Whatever the form of the container, the fastener which secured the cord at the top of the sash was a carved, button-like toggle called a netsuke. Netsuke , like inrÅ and ojime , evolved over time from being strictly utilitarian into objects of great artistic merit and an expression of extraordinary craftsmanship.
The two halves of a riveted leather snap fastener. The top half has a groove which "snaps" in place when "pressed" into the bottom half. A snap fastener, also called snap button, press button, [1] press stud, [1] press fastener, dome fastener, popper, snap and tich (or tich button), is a pair of interlocking discs, made out of a metal or plastic, commonly used in place of traditional buttons ...
Firmin & Sons is a British company, founded in 1655, that manufactures and supplies military ceremonial buttons, badges, accoutrements, and uniforms. Thomas Firmin was born in Ipswich , Suffolk in 1632 and was apprenticed to The Girdlers Company the makers of belts both for fine dress and for utility.