Pegs Button Blog

My fun card of clear rhinestones/pastes in metal buttons click on image to enlarge

Fun Facts about the First Thanksgiving The Plymouth Pilgrims were the first to celebrate the Thanksgiving. The Pilgrims sailed acro...

Great detailed high-relief picture style buttons with image of Lady Liberty head busting through face  The design closely resembles ...

 Bat and Ball Hoop Rolling (Hoop Rolling is both a sport and a child’s game in which a large hoop is rolled along the ground, generally...

Some of the materials glass, fabric, pearl, metal,celluloid, horn, wood, plastic, composition click on image to enlarge

683 buttons and a few non button mementos on my charm string none are vintage nor modern buttons ALL are antique some of the materials,...

Laocoon Mythology Button, a priest of Troy, who had urged the Trojans not to bring the wooden horse into the city. His warnings went ...

Colorado buttons and pins etc. 3 brass uniform buttons: State seal, Colorado police, State Industrial School (which was located in Gol...

I recently put this card together of some of my Swans and Peacock buttons Click on image to enlarge

The sets are: Hey Diddle Diddle Sing a Song of Sixpence Jack and Jill Humpty Dumpty Three Little Kittens Mary and Her Little L...

Gnomes are thought to have originated in Scandinavia and were first sighted well over 2000 years ago. Only 6 inches high, the gnome ...

I just listed this group of buttons they are available in my ecrater button store, the 2 at the bottom are vintage glass and rest are plas...

I enjoy homestead/pioneer pieces and thought that most likely our pioneer ancestors made buttons out of corn cobs.  It was a fun challe...

Happy Mother's Day to all

Raggedy Ann & Andy ceramic buttons I acquired these years ago in a collection, I have always wondered if they were commercially...

According to Jocelyn Howells button book  “Button Materials from A to Z” these are fairly scarce buttons they are a type of porcelai...

Ivory Bone Jade buttons card 1st button in 4th row is celluloid antique and vintage buttons click on image to enlarge

Each year I replace or add a button to this card new one is the Leprechaun which is a modern plastic snap-together button click on image ...

my card of rose buttons I put together MANY years ago, various materials. Click on image to enlarge

All but two of these antique buttons have small jewels whose glass centers do not cover the entire fronts of the buttons. The fields ...

Buttons set with Saphiret stones date from the turn of the 19th century. This type of glass was created in Gablonz by adding gold...

Mosaics set as buttons were one of the favorite items for 18th and 19th century tourists to bring home from Italy my few mosaics consi...

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...