Button Jewels

A few weeks ago, I did a blog on collections.  I mentioned a friend who had a button collection passed down to her by her mother.  When I think of buttons, I think of the colorful plastic buttons, metal or glass buttons like the ones my mother collected in a fishing box.  I never dreamed of the kinds of buttons my friend had stitched to display cards.  Some were hundreds of years old and all were works of art.  Carved, enamel, brass, silver, bejeweled, Victorian black glass, mother of pearl, each is an amazing and unique piece of art. 

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