Button Experts needed!

Discussion in 'Textiles, Needle Arts, Clothing' started by necollectors, Dec 5, 2019.

  1. necollectors

    necollectors Well-Known Member

    [​IMG][​IMG] colonial button side.jpg button back.jpg I welcome your thoughts...It is made of mother of Pearl, both the bottom and the top, held together by a brass shank. Dates? What it may have been used for? Thanks!
     

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  2. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    looks like a 60's coat button....but not knowing the size & trying to look at photo's smaller than an average stamp are a hindrance to my being more forthcoming.
    I'm not an expert either..:(:(:(
     
    komokwa, Dec 5, 2019
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  3. Aquitaine

    Aquitaine Is What It IS! But NEVER BORED!

    It's what, maybe an inch across??
     
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  4. shallow_ocean_spectre

    shallow_ocean_spectre fine.books' bumping squirrel

    500 pixels.




    Ba-dum-bump!
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  5. necollectors

    necollectors Well-Known Member

    7/8" almost an inch
     
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  6. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

    As stated - coat or jacket button. The MOP ones are popular to sell. Go on Ebay and check completed prices. Probably won't get much for a single button, but you never know. Someone may have a set with one missing.
     
    Bev aka thelmasstuff, Dec 15, 2019
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  7. Blue Ribbon Antiques

    Blue Ribbon Antiques Member

    Look like buttons that were on my Mom’s nursing uniforms, she graduated in 1939.
     
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