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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 3743561, member: 111&quot;]Started collecting buttons in the mid &#039;70s (haven&#039;t been active for several years), but don&#039;t recall the &#039;peasant button&#039; term in common use among collectors until Jane Perry&#039;s book came out a few years back.&nbsp; While I agree it not really an appropriate description or generalization, and wouldn&#039;t use it, it&#039;s nothing new, &#039;peasant&#039; has been used in referring to traditional European jewelry, silver, etc. from well back in the 19th century (sometimes specifying &#039;wealthy&#039; or &#039;prosperous&#039; peasants), and likely where Perry took it from (she doesn&#039;t call all the buttons in it &#039;peasant&#039;, but the majority).&nbsp; I have the book, thought it was here, but it&#039;s apparently packed away in a box somewhere - it gets into a group of buttons not really covered well in other references before, and clearly she did her research, but as said before, given the similarities in filigree techniques and general forms, attribution can be iffy, since very similar pieces could have different origins, the reason I only showed marked pieces with the same motifs for likely attribution.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a page from The Studio magazine&#039;s &#039;Peasant Art in Sweden, Lapland and Iceland&#039; (1910):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]314011[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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