Pegs Button Blog

The Edelweiss Flower is found in the Alpine countries of Europe, and is highly prized by mountaineers as a sign of victory over the mountain...

Here is one idea someone had in the late 1800's..the pitcher was decorated using putty..there are buttons, coins, scissors, 2 old teeth...

The six buttons on the lower left are not aluminum stencils. Thank you to BJ Smyers for sharing this vintage card

Aluminum stencil buttons were made in the 1930's..in many colors and several patterns. The picture shows the patterns you mostly find as...

Hawaii became the 50th state in 1959. All things Hawaiian were a great interest and popularity on the mainland, and buttons such as these be...

Button collectors often find small, painted wooden doll-like buttons, but few realize what they are..tiny KOKESHI. Very popular in Japan as ...

Happy 4th..both cards are available in my ecrater store under the mixed materials category @ Pegs Buttons

Original JHB card, thanks to BJ Smyers for sharing the card. Click on picture to enlarge.

Charles Monroe Schulz 1922-2000 American cartoonist, whose comic strip PEANUTS is considered to be one of the most popular and influential i...

These should make you SMILE! My fun card..few are metal with most being plastic.

This is a card I entered in a button show several years ago..Award read, SHELL specialized to painted or encrusted, gilded, cut steels, watc...

The fop was a stock character in English literature and especially comic drama, as well as satirical prints. He is a "man of fashion...

Tintypes, more properly called ferrotypes, were quite popular in the period from 1850's through the early 1900's. The introduction o...

From my personal collection..materials: bakelite, metal, rubber, celluloid, plastic, fabric, the purple button is poly-clay and those are RE...

From my personal collection, materials are plastic, celluloid, bakelite, pearl, metal, coconut shell, vegetable ivory and glass. FUN CARD!!

Swedish-Modern was primarily a decorative-arts style--only to a much smaller degree a fine-arts style...which is associated with Swedish fur...

Archaeologically-styled decorative-arts products were made to copy the look of Etruscan and Hellenic jewelry from the 7th to 3rd centuries B...

Surrealism is an elemental art style, derived from Cubism but relying on fantasy, including the absurd, the incongruous, the weird, and occa...

Art Deco was a popular international art design movement from 1925 until the 1940s, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, inte...

ART STYLE: Machine Art (New Realism) (1917-1935) Machine Art was a form of curvilinear Cubism, dependent on the dynamic shapes of machinery ...

Today March 17th is the birth date of Kate G. Kate Greenaway..English artist and writer, 1846-1901. Many of Kate Greenaway's illustratio...

6 are metal, 3 are antique buttons and 3 are vintage. 1 blue with white design is a vintage studio ceramic button, 1 (girl on fence.."M...

Here are a few K.G. typicals which means they have never been found in any of K.G's books or cards. The two blue with white designs are ...

JUNQUE DECO BUTTONS Modern habitat buttons were marketed under the name JUNQUE DECO in the late 1980's. Many miscellaneous little items ...

The first picture is a button and a piece of pyrite, they are from a button collection I acquired years old. The collector had the 2 on a sm...

A legend of the Daisy flower. The Daisy has long been a favorite in love stories-most of us recite-"One I love, two I love, three I lov...

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young lovers whose deaths ultimately u...

Cupid is working overtime preparing for tomorrows big day..he is sharpening his arrows and forging the links of matrimony. Happy Valentine D...

LEGEND OF RED ROSE Venus was a beautiful Goddess, gracious and charming. She symbolized love between man and woman. Her altar was always hea...

Valentine's Day or Saint Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14 by many people throughout the world. In the English-...

Queen Victoria was born in 1819, she became queen in 1837 at the young age of 18. In 1840, she married her first cousin, Prince Albert. They...

The most famous bell in the U.S. is the Liberty Bell. It was cast in England and brought to America in 1752. It weighs 2000 pounds. During i...

Beatrix Potter was a lonely girl living in a quiet townhouse in London in the late 1800's. Her father was a prosperous lawyer and he and...

As I was looking for the Angel of Peace button to show you (below)..I noticed this one, it appears to be Rebecca and Eliezer (and others) at...

Memorial card for a small child. Angel of Peace button, from a painting by Wilhelm Kaulbach(1805-1874) Button is antique, brass with wood ba...

Cloud: A visible body of very fine droplets of water or particles of ice dispersed in the atmosphere above the earth's surface at variou...

COMET: The most mysterious member of the solar system. A comet shines partly by reflected light, partly because sunlight causes their own ga...

AURORAS: High altitude, many colored, flashing luminosity visible in the night skies of polar and sometimes temperate zones, and thought to...

Rainbow: A solar spectra formed as sunlight passes through drops of water. Airline pilots have said rainbows can be a complete circle.

THE MOON: A natural satellite of earth visible by reflection of sunlight having a slight elliptical orbit, etc. The moon is any natural sate...

SUN: A star that is the center of a planetary system. This button is a modern plastic snap-together. I have over 200 snap-togethers @ /...

Lightening..The visible body of very fine droplets of water or particles of ice dispersed in the atmosphere above the earth's surface at...

When Christmas comes and soft lights glow And Santa's reindeers trip the snow My stocking I'll hang by the chimney so near, And list...

A celestial body visible at night from earth as relatively stationary, usually twinkling point of light. Many star buttons are available @ P...

Who made the first snowman? Where did it originate? How was it propagated? -------------------------- It's a well-documented fact that v...