~Collectible Buttons For Sale ~ ~ Vintage and Antique ~

Welcome to Buttononie reinvented. I started my "Button-Button" web site in 1991, with the "button button, who's got the button..." game in my mind and after having lost my original domain name I lost much of my visibility. However, I feel as if I am coming back now with a new version of my old domain name and I most wholeheartedly welcome your visit. In the paragraphs below you can view some buttons which are still on my "to keep for now" list.

Questions are welcome, as well as requests for closeups, enlargements, more iniformation, etc. on any buttons you see on my site. I'm working on getting more buttons up for sale, as well as a bit of re-design on the site. In the meantime, you'll see some rather "messy-looking" pages, but the buttons are not messy. They are all in very good condition.
U.S. Shipping is $3.25 for any size order; insurance extra. If ordering, please refer to page title as well as row and column number My paypal ID is buttons@minot.com, which is also the email address to use when contacting me.

Buttons as fasteners have been discovered in pre-historic digs; the crude, hand-made buttons have been found made of stone and bone as well as many other materials. Before 1991 I didn't know there was such a hobby as button collecting. After a visit to the public library by a close friend, together we discovered the "Big Book of Buttons". Life hasn't been the same since.

Inside the cover of that "library book" we found a note referring to the National Button Society, and promptly joined. The National Button Society was formed in 1938, at which time rare and beautiful buttons were not expensive. The hobby very quickly garnered interest and now the NBS is known far and wide. The NBS consists of members from all over the world, many of whom are dealers who come to the National Button Society Annual Show each year, open to the public, which is usually held in August. This coming August we'll be meeting in Denver. Details can be found at the National Button Society WEB SITEwhere you can learn how to join NBS as well as find links to state societies, and details for upcoming State button shows.

Besides viewing the buttons entered in competition, you'll see tables ofvintage and collectible buttons for sale, all materials and sizes will be available for purchase or just to look and enjoy.

Moonglow buttons have been very popular in the collecting world. Many different colors, surface treatment and shapes as well as some pictorials can be found. I'm not sure how the term "moonglow" came to be, but there is a way to determine the difference between an "ordinary" glass button and a moonglow button. There is a discernable, though in many instances thin, layer of clear glass over the top of the button. By holding the button by the shank and shining a pen-lite against the edge of the top, you can see the thin layer of clear glass.

It's difficult to explain here where I'm trying to give an idea of how we display and/or compete; once you attend a button show, you'll see GORGEOUS, buttons of all materials and topics, properly mounted for both competition and preservation. This example shows black glass moonglows which have their own category as opposed to moonglows of all other colors. The base of these buttons is black, the tops may be almost any color and/or combination thereof.

Artists of varied media have found that button collectors admire their work and have pleased us enormously by sharing their talent in the form of gorgeous hand-crafted buttons. These studio buttons are strictly for "show and tell" for now but I wil be putting some up for sale soon. Most of these artists do sell their art to anyone interested.

Collecting buttons became one of my passions in 1990, and perhaps you'd like to see some of the finds I've made; I call these buttons SHOW and TELL, but NOT to SELL. These buttons will give you an idea of how members of the National Button Society display our collectibles.

Clear Glass Buttons are quite plentiful, shown here on a fun card made by "one of us." I also had fun doing Button Bouquets with colorful old plastic buttons as well as newly made buttons found in fabric stores. The bright colors of bakelite buttons caught my fancy early on, as well as did celluloid of various types. Some are not as collectible as others, so for FUN with celluloid buttons, I did THIS several years ago.

For competition, besides bakelite and celluloid buttons, I sought buttons depicting heads of men, women and children; but I soon found it difficult to concentrate on one particular topic, so I started buying buttons depicting flowers. Then art deco glass caught my eye and then colorful old glass, and on and on. Collecting buttons is very addicting. My mom collected elephant "knick-knacks", so I bought a few elephant buttons for her. Soon I couldn't help myself, so I began collecting elephant buttons for myself.