Horse jewelry. That's what you're looking at in the photograph at right. These lovely glass buttons were decorative ornaments for bridles in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Many of them have ...

The buttons come in a dizzying array of colors, sizes and materials -- from porcelain and mother-of-pearl to celluloid, stenciled tin and Bakelite. The "flapper girls" are china buttons made in ...

For 37 years, Grandmother's Buttons has floated in time, anchored by its 19th- and 20th-century antique button jewelry on the fringes of the digital age. The business has a website, and it's easily ...

Exhibit: The button exhibit can be viewed through March at the Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave., Coeur d’Alene. Club: The Historical Button Club meets at noon the second Wednesday of ...

Chelsey Clark's children call her "The Tinker Fairy" because she finds lost things -- buttons mostly. But Clark's buttons aren't off just any old shirt. Mostly they are little works of art gleaned ...

Katie Paaso, a longtime quilter who lives on Oregon’s northern coast, inherited a vintage button collection from her aunt 25 years ago. The various fasteners, some antique glass, celluloid or brass, ...

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A pair of extremely rare antique buttons bought for £40 fetched a staggering £61,000 at an auction. Gary Quittenton-Shaw, 58, snapped up the buttons which were included in a bunch of items he bought ...