I didn't want to keep these from you 
. Here are all the buttons that I acquired with some of the other stuff I've already shown.
These carded ones came from the same place as all the belt buckles and dickies / modesty panels. All originally carded, and the black/silver ones' card is marked "Czechoslovakia". I also have a feeling that these are glass - at least they clink against my teeth like that.
The loose buttons - some of which I've already shown - are from Vienna. Whilst I was there, my pal and her husband went to pick up a very stylish 1950s small bookcase from an estate. On the internet page, they had advertised only the furniture, but when they got there, the lady looking after it told them the could have anything else they wanted of the small stuff. It seems the lady who had lived there had been a seamstress. My friend picked up a huge bag of buttons, and a few items of clothing. None of the clothing worked for me - it was clearly 80s maybe early 90s, and made for a shorter, rounder woman, but one could see she was a seamstress, it was all extremely well made down to the details. But the buttons....! We sat down on the floor and spent a few hours sorting through them. There were countless small mother of pearl buttons, which my friend took for her mother, lots of bright poly covered buttons ca. 60s/70s - and some that looked quite a bit older! I just picked those out that looked interesting to me. Now I've gotten to clean them up, and remove old remnants of thread etc. It seems this lady cut off buttons off things that couldn't be worn anymore and kept them all for possible reuse. Some of the buttons I suspect to be glass - like the red ones, the square one and the small green and the small round navy ones. Aren't they all just fabulous?
I hope I'll be able to use them or some of them.
Karin
. Here are all the buttons that I acquired with some of the other stuff I've already shown.These carded ones came from the same place as all the belt buckles and dickies / modesty panels. All originally carded, and the black/silver ones' card is marked "Czechoslovakia". I also have a feeling that these are glass - at least they clink against my teeth like that.
The loose buttons - some of which I've already shown - are from Vienna. Whilst I was there, my pal and her husband went to pick up a very stylish 1950s small bookcase from an estate. On the internet page, they had advertised only the furniture, but when they got there, the lady looking after it told them the could have anything else they wanted of the small stuff. It seems the lady who had lived there had been a seamstress. My friend picked up a huge bag of buttons, and a few items of clothing. None of the clothing worked for me - it was clearly 80s maybe early 90s, and made for a shorter, rounder woman, but one could see she was a seamstress, it was all extremely well made down to the details. But the buttons....! We sat down on the floor and spent a few hours sorting through them. There were countless small mother of pearl buttons, which my friend took for her mother, lots of bright poly covered buttons ca. 60s/70s - and some that looked quite a bit older! I just picked those out that looked interesting to me. Now I've gotten to clean them up, and remove old remnants of thread etc. It seems this lady cut off buttons off things that couldn't be worn anymore and kept them all for possible reuse. Some of the buttons I suspect to be glass - like the red ones, the square one and the small green and the small round navy ones. Aren't they all just fabulous?
I hope I'll be able to use them or some of them.Karin
