Pegs Button Blog

Bethlehem pearl vintage buttons  these are much lighter in color than the image shows click on image to enlarge

Kaleidoscope glass antique buttons they date 1840's-1870's The essential parts of a kaleidoscope are a transparent glass “do...

I've added some new ones since last years. Various materials, click on image to enlarge

1st set real seashells embedded in probably polyester Animal Head Set...acetate Umbrella..celluloid outer 6 are bakelite Dominoe...

I try to add a couple buttons to this card each year, majority of the buttons are plastic Happy Halloween, Peg click on image to enlarge...

Any account of the National Park Service must begin with the parks that preceded it and prompted its creation. The national park conce...

The Bureau of Indian Affairs ( BIA ) is an agency of the federal government of the United States within the U.S. Department of the Int...

Ethiopian woman’s head button (this is according to the Big Book of Buttons) but I've also heard her called Hawaiian Queen, Lydi...

This antique button is called “Porridge Time”  Stamped brass applied to a flat, textured brass back, with applied steel star. The ...

Marie La Barre-Bennett, studio button artist She first made buttons in 1953. She had been a button collector since 1943.  She ...

The figure is of silvered brass and is applied to a flat lacquered brass button with engraved wall and archway,etc. ------------------...

this card was in a collection I acquired, the top left button doesn’t belong on here as it’s a Telegraph Co. button, the top right butt...

My just for fun card of Peacock and Peacock eye buttons

First 2 are real Garter buttons from the 20’s The faces are printed on silk which is stretched over a metal form fitted with a pad sh...

Assorted materials, click on image to enlarge

Some of my buttons with horses Click on image to enlarge

These steel cup buttons are all constructed the same way, only the trims inside the cups differ.  The button itself is a shallow stee...

Owl buttons This is my 3rd place winning tray at National Button show several years ago, judges comments “Very close competition need mo...

When you see  these 2 buttons for sale they are often not correctly titled because they are so similar in design. Both are antique br...

Jeanne Laisne born 1456 was a French heroine known as Jeanne Fourquet and nicknamed Jeanne Hachette (Jean the Hatchet) All that she is cu...

This pottery button is stunning also notice the sterling 4 leaf clover and leaf buttons click on image to enlarge

my fun card, click on image to enlarge

   50 State Seals-click on image to enlarge     The use of seals was brought to America from Europe by the colonists. These were t...

Bellum and Pax, War and Peace. Bellum was a Roman adaptation of the Greek warrior goddess, Athena. She is shown within a border of lau...

How did Valentine become the patron saint of lovers?     According to one legend, in third-century Rome young men did not want t...

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  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