BUTTONS

CHANEL logo on the front.

Gripoix button with Chanel logo on the front.

This piece attaches to the garment with a screw-on snap. Usually, snaps are sewn on to face each other, hidden from view. screw-on snaps closed together  

The last photo is of the back of the button.

      Mileposts Central space connecting special exhibition galleries, Mississippi Civil Rights Museum As a spider spins his silk into a web outside, we look closely at our web of history, inter-woven by the invisible silky threads, connecting our journeys’ mileposts. In this Aerogramme, a button posted by Susan Goodwin is our point of connection. European exploration of sub-Saharan Africa is…

There are a surprising number of livery buttons with variations of this image, that of a black man, shown in profile, wearing a torque (a headband).  Several years ago I tried to find an explanation for this image being on British livery buttons.  I went as far as finding a family whose livery button had this image and whose family still resides in the manor house of their ancestors.  I emailed…

This Obi Dome is ceramic with an enamel painted design of fans. It is signed on the back side. Obi Domes are worn as a decoration over an Obi. A ribbon, webbing, or cords pass through the slot on the back side of the Obi Dome and then are tied behind the wearer’s back. I like to wear some of my favorite buttons as if they are brooches. As you can see from the photos of the back side of this Obi…

This brown Bakelite button has a stained brass moon escutcheon, with a very pleasing smiling face! The Bakelite has a carved star and carved light rays emanating from the moon. 3/8″ thick and 1 9/16 in diameter.

This button was the subject of the September 2023 Aerogramme.

This button is my earliest button memory.  My mother had a white chenille bathrobe that had these buttons down the front.  This would have been about 1952 to 1958.

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June bug is mounted on metal to become a button. See its legs showing through the reverse side opening. other bugs next to the button for front and back views of the actual insects.

What group was this uniform button made for?Back mark is “I (or T?) LLOYD DUBLIN”. Do you have a pointer as to how to identify this monogram under a crown?