Pegs Button Blog

  This is one of the oldest sets of goofies, possibly as early as 1930, made of metal and painted mirror, perfume atomizer, cros...

The National Button Society was formed in 1938 This article on early collectors was in Hobbies Magazine 1948 click on image to enlarge ...

Card 3 of my fun cards of Christmas buttons Materials: wood, plastic, metal, enameled brass, ceramic Click on image to enlarge

Card 2 of my fun cards of Christmas buttons Materials: Plastic, enameled brass, fabric, ceramic, rubber Click on image to enlarge

Card 1 of my fun cards of Christmas buttons  Materials:ceramic, wood, glass, brass, enameled brass and plastic click on image to enlarge ...

Happy Thanksgiving..Buttons click on image to enlarge

The buttons are antique and vintage Materials: metal, celluloid, glass, black glass, ceramic, plastic, metalized plastic, fabric C...

Happy Halloween  my just for fun card, majority are plastic buttons. Click on image to enlarge

Victorian white glass buttons 1840’s to early 1900’s On this card they are all opaque white buttons Among glass buttons the term Vict...

  Among glass buttons the term Victorian is used specifically for those of opaque (or more rarely, transparent) white or colored gla...

Western German Glass Buttons these are vintage mid 1950's to early 60's click on image to enlarge

18th century mother of pearl button carved with a jeweled pin shank shank: the “eye” is of flat copper wire and there is a tinned cop...

 Pearl buttons antique extra large, the anchor button is size 2 5/16 click on image to enlarge  

  A finely detailed, stamped, silvered and pierced design mounted over a carved and pierced pearl background. There is a second bird c...

Dragons brass and pearl antique button One piece brass, pierced and finely detailed. The lower section has a carved and pierced browni...

China calico buttons are dated 1840-1870's click on image to enlarge

Russian lacquerware peacock button click on image to enlarge

Moonglow glass buttons Made by a special process from a cane with both clear and opaque, translucent glass throughout its length. When ...

Some of my fun red/white and blue buttons One of the cards show some with a green color they are not all are red,white and blue

There are many versions of the Legends of Lorelei which originated in Germany  Lorelei is the name of a spirit and the big rock in the Rh...

Statue of Liberty patriotic buttons  plastic buttons on original card circa 1940s.

First is brass wild rose 2nd looks like porcelain on brass and last is white metal these are available in my ecrater button store under...

Ceramic flower buttons vintage set of six ceramic with metal loop shank these are available in my ecrater button store under the plant lif...

April showers bring May flowers here is my card I entered in a button show several years ago “Pansies and Violets” I have many differe...

These are small plastic buttons designed and painted by Edith and Alan Brooks in England   Edith and Alan opened a “craft-w...

This button is called: Easter Parade Antique brass button, a gnome pulls an eggshell cart, notice the rabbit peering over the hill. ...

Formed in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), NBC is the oldest broadcasting network in the U.S. Both brass uniform buttons...

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click on picture to enlarge the metal button is antique, available in my button store under the METAL category http://PegsBUTTONS.ecr...

Coralene: Buttons decorated with tiny glass beads heat fused to the surface. Most have 4-way metal shanks and are considered to be of...

Rock crystal buttons are scarce. These small silver-mounted buttons, with red foil underneath the faceted rock crystal stone, were wor...

In the 1930’s, a mania began for realistically-shaped, small plastic, celluloid, or glass buttons. The fad was gone by the early 1950’s, but...

Happy Thanksgiving

We have all seen marching bands at high school and college football games, and in holiday parades. Did you ever wonder at the emblem on t...

Metal glove buttons impressed with designs or maker’s trademarks. Gloves had a much greater social significance in the past than they ...

Billy Possum was a popular nickname for William Howard Taft, successor to Roosevelt for the presidency in 1908. Taft was often represente...

Mi ESKIMO Interesting button but cheaply made brass button for children’s clothing in the early 1900’s

Enameling on copper studio buttons by Herman Lowenstein When he retired to Florida he began experimenting with ground colored gla...