Annual Fall Antique Button Auction, Day One

19 Large mostly 2oth century examples including pictorials. Here is a nice card of assorted ceramics including porcelain and pottery in assorted t...

18 Medium 19th/20th century buttons including Delft ceramics, This partial card includes three nice Delft ceramic buttons included a domed one set...

42 Medium size 20th century examples including pictorials. This is a loaded card of assorted styles, types and pictorials. The card includes potte...

8 Large size 20th century examples including pictorial. If you read Gretchen Gauthiers article in your NBS March bulletin on plaster buttons you n...

20 Large mostly 2oth century examples including pictorials. Here is a nice card of assorted ceramics including porcelain and pottery in assorted t...

2 Medium size 20th century assorted Arita porcelain buttons. Here we have 2 Japanese buttons from Arita Japan, one is a realistic seahorse and the...

1 Extra large 1950's example of the Portland Rose. This button was made in a limited quantity and commissioned by an American collector but made i...

6 Medium and Large 20th century including Stella Rzanski. This small card includes 4 large rectangular Satsuma style buttons from the 1990's by th...

3 Medium & Large 20th century unusual Jasperware examples. If your at all familiar with the Rzanski/Shaw Jasperware buttons then you know this col...

1 Large 20th century Jasperware button by Stella Rzanski. Here is a nice example by the Late Stella Rzanski. It shows seven different dog breeds o...

5 Medium & large 20th C. dogs including Rzanski Satsuma style. This card includes Jasperware and Japanese Satsuma style ceramics by the late Stell...

35 S/M/L 19th & 20th century examples including Todd Oldham. This is a really nice card of dogs including several very nice detailed silver exampl...

21 S/M/L 19th & 20th century assorted fable buttons. This card decorated by the late Alice Mucha of the Bronx includes fables such as "The Fox & t...

2 Medium 20th century buttons designed by Todd Oldham. Here is a pair of gilded brass buttons of a realistic Chihuahua dog and a bone. Both accent...

1 Large size early 20th century carved brass wolf head button. Here is a beautifully made and detailed head of a wolf. The facial features and th...

1 Large 19th century molded brass owl button with glass eyes. In our April 2022 button auction we featured a button made in the same manner as thi...

15 S/M/L 19th and 20th century assorted material birds.. This card includes owls, roosters, and more. Materials include metals, wood and bone, Jas...

16 S/M/L 19th & 20th century assorted bird buttons. This card includes a nice variety of birds including a parrot, a swallow, a duck and more. The...

1 Large 20th century HORSE button by the late Faith Strobel. This nice selection came to us from a collector outside the button world along with s...

1 Medium size 19th century turtle and leaves button. Here is a really fun button of a turtle under a rock. The brass base is cup shaped and the tu...

18 S/M/L 19th and 20th century assorted fish buttons. This lot includes nice mother of pearl, natural material, wood, glass and more. Issued: DIVI...

12 Large Medium 21st century natural material buttons in wood. This is a set of 12 Zodiac signs that are engraved and painted and set in wood base...

11 Medium & Large 20th/21st century buttons including carved. This nice selection of bone buttons includes a cool realistic frog, a pierced elepha...

3 Medium 20th century natural material assorted animal buttons. Here we have three different animals, a wonderful detailed snake, a turtle and a f...

10 Medium 19th & 20th century examples including pictorials. This partial card includes a cool oval mask, a wonderful pearl inlaid shoe, a beautif...

1 Medium size 20th century colored balloon button. Here is a very nicely engraved and colored natural material button with 2 hot air balloons on i...

1 Large medium 219th century hand painted female. This beautifully painted lady was painted on natural material and set under glass and in an orna...

1 Medium size early 20th century carved natural material button. This detailed carved parrot head is carved in high relief from bone and is tinted...

1 Large 21st century button by Bob Benson. Bob Benson has been creating wonderful buttons for several years but has now completely retired and mov...

27 Medium 19th & 20th century assorted techniques. These Vegetable Iv. Buttons include stenciled, painted, pictorials, lathed, carved, engraved, d...

5 Large 20th century realistic carved animal life buttons. These 5 animal life buttons are carved in Vegetable Iv. Which comes from the tagua nut....

16 Medium size 19th & 20th century buttons including pictorial. This card includes several nice examples like the Elephant and the 3 bords as well...

22 Small & Medium size 19th century pearl inlay buttons. This card decorated by the late Alice Mucha of the Bronx includes several assorted paper ...

6 Medium and Large 20th century examples with "Glitzy" mirrors. Nikki had a whole card of these flashy buttons from India. They are quite colorful...

8 Large 20th century examples including pictorials. This partial card includes a funky and fun depiction of a modern day computer, a fun pair of E...

1 Large 21st century flower button made by Nikki Deal. Many of you know that Nikki has moved to Washington State to be near family and has given u...

2 Large 20th century colored paper under glass. Here we have two charming buttons. One shows a young girl walking her sheep, the other is a family...

1 Large 21st century pictorial Russian Lacquer button. These beautiful examples of Russian lacquer in this auction were commissioned by Bud and Co...

11 Medium & Large19th-21st century buttons including tooled. This card includes some really nice examples like the embossed architectural scene fr...

3 Large late 20th century examples in tooled leather. This fun small card includes three different tooled leather buttons including a wonderful re...

20 Large 20th century examples including objects. This card includes a large variety of subject matter including plant life, objects, animals and ...

16 Large 20th/21st century examples including John Sauer. This card of wood includes a great extra large realistic horse head along with several o...

12 Medium & Large 20th century examples of animals. This card of Coconut shell buttons are all realistic shape and are hand carved depicting 12 di...

3 Large 20th century wood and Bakelite pictorial buttons. This lot has two things on common in all three buttons, they all have wood bases, and th...

1 Large 20th century precision inlay set in a coat button. Here is a wonderful example of a Bakelite coat button from the 1930's. The large glass ...

27 Medium & Large 20th C. examples including chunky realistics. This nice card of Bakelite buttons includes various colors, shapes and techniques ...

1 Large 20th century coat button with a detailed head. This great black Bakelite button is escutcheoned with a high relief blue jewel OME Arab hea...

43 S/M/L 19th and 20th century assorted pictorial head buttons. This card includes a large variety of materials to include Horn, Meerschaum, porce...

4 Small 19th and 20th century buttons including glass & enamel. This card includes a scarce example of Sarah Bernhardt as "L"Aglon", scarce becaus...

1 Large 19th century brass and steel button. This high relief and detailed brass head of a baby is pinned to a flat steel base with shaped cut ste...

42 S/M/L 19th and 20th century assorted materials. This lot of head buttons include men, women and children. The lot includes many metal as well a...

1 Medium size 20th century example of an Egyptian Queen, This is an unusual example of an Egyptian Queen. The detail and the design are incredible...

4 small late 19th century ladies heads plus a dog. These charming little buttons depicts ladies on paper under a celluloid shield and set in metal...

42 S/M/L 19th & 20th century examples including Ivoroid. Celluloid was invented in 1850 and the first buttons showed up around 1870 with the intro...

12 Large 20th C. pictorial buttons specialized to Acrylic shot. These Acrylic shot buttons have become quite popular in the last 20 years and most...

9 Medium & Large 20th century examples including WEEBER. This nice selection came to us from a collector outside the button world along with sever...

11 Medium & Large 19th and 20th century buttons including Lucite. This partial card includes a nice iridescent lustered black glass in a Victorian...

6 Extra large 20th century examples including pictorial. This card includes the fantastic green carved Burwood on a celluloid wafer back, the over...

16 Medium and large 20th century Artid buttons. This card includes a variety of subject matter and colors on all these backmarked English Artid bu...

20 Large 20th century examples mostly with paste OME. This card includes several celluloid examples including 1 Victorian 19th century example alo...