Earlier this year, my husband Nick's grandmother died. She was nearly 100 years old. I didn't have the chance to meet her, but a few weeks ago we went to her house in Poughkeepsie. I was given a large collection of family clothing, buttons, sewing notions, etc. dating from the late 1800s up to about the 1940s. I will eventually share photos of the clothing, but wanted to start out with some wonderful button pictures.
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| Beautiful antique buttons with metal cutout design, on the original card. |
Among these was a box full of shell buttons, which became very popular in the 1800s, and continued into the 20th century. It's interesting, because there are a lot of shell buttons in this collection, and some plastic made to look like shell buttons, which date from post 1930s. My friend Gina has a YouTube channel of her online museum that talks all about these buttons and how they were made. She has a delightful video about them - please take a look!
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| A selection of 19th century buttons: pressed glass, perfume and others. Perfume buttons were metal with a bit of fabric beneath, and women would put perfume on these buttons. |
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| Look at these beautiful buttons. |
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| The top half of this photo shows the shell buttons. A lot of them are plain, but there are a few that are decorated. So lovely! |
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| White carved shell buttons. |
I'm impressed (and excited) by how old a lot of these buttons are. There are also several 20th century buttons, a lot of them on cards (maybe I'll do a follow-up post about those). There are also belt buckles with a deco look, probably dating from the 1930s and 1940s. The others
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| Look at these wonderful belt buckles! |
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