Showing posts with label celluloid tight-top button. Show all posts
Showing posts with label celluloid tight-top button. Show all posts

Monday, June 25, 2012

Celluloid tight-top button..the guts!

this vintage celluloid tight-top button was damaged so I took it apart and this is what I found.
During the depression, work pants and other buttons were made out of
flattened, recycled tin and steel cans.