August Vintage Fashion and Buttons Auction

30 Medium assorted 19th century shell buttons. This lot includes pearl, Cowrie, Carved, in metal, dyed, cut steel OME and more. Issued: DIVISION 1=PR

19 S/M/L assorted pearl buttons with metal escutcheons. This lot consists of various escutcheons depicting animals, plants, objects, and other pictori

20 S/M/L assorted white pearl buttons with Bethlehem pearl. This lot includes a very cool medium realistic sew thru building, several Bethlehem pearls

32 S/M/L assorted pearl buttons in assorted techniques. Here is a nice assortment of 19th and 20th century buttons from the collection of Cathy Solhei

1 Large Bethlehem pearl button of a bicycle and rider. Dorothy Tunnison of California was considered an expert of Bethlehem pearl buttons and knowing

1 extra large gorgeous colorful abalone background button. This is truly an incredible Abalone button in many was. A great impressive size, a beautifu

4 Medium 18th century buttons including pearl. My grandmother Viviane Beck Ertell always said that small and medium 18th century buttons were rarer th

3 Medium 18th century pearl and metal buttons This lot includes a medium scalloped steel with paste pinshank a beautiful pearl with an engraved 8 poin

1 Small pictorial and verbal 19ith century silver button It isn't every day one fines an 18th century button with an engraved running dog and a ...

1 Medium 18th century steel engraved button This beautiful condition 18th century engraving n paper under glass depicts the Greek 'Eschyle"...

4 Small & Medium repousse metal wood backed 18th century buttons Repousse metal is a technique where they punched the design from the back of th...

1 Large hand painting under glass 18th century button. This large under glass hand painted angel cherubs were painted on natural material with a beaut

1 Small 19th century hand painting under glass in silver button. Here is a beautifully executed example and incredible that an artist could paint in s

1 Medium size 19th c, under glass head in the sulphide technique. Alethe Alan of Florida would use this button on many of her competition cards and it

3 Medium Lithographs set under glass and paste bordered. This lot consists of three different lady heads done in lithograph style and hand colored. Ea

1 Medium early 19th century hand painted figural under glass. This beautiful early 1800's hand painting on natural material shows a man playing ...

4 Medium/Large 19th C. faux fabric buttons black glass buttons. This is a beautiful selection of these desirable fabric finish black glass buttons. Gr

6 Medium/Large 19th century mostly pictorial black glass buttons. This selection of black glass includes a purple and silver square fox head inside a

1 Medium 19th century molded lustered black glass cat button This very rare button depicts four kittens playing. The lustre and gold paint accent beau

1 Large 20th century chunky Bakelite pierced cat button. This rare cat in orange is very detailed and engraved and hard to find. Issued: DIVISION 1=P

1 Large 20th C. chunky Bakelite dog head with glass eye button. This dog is from a set of three different dogs all with glass eyes. Issued: DIVISION

2 Medium 20th C. Chunky Bakelite buttons incl. an Elephant. This lot includes a butterscotch elephant on a red base along with a cool painted recipe b

2 Large 20th C. chunky Bakelite realistic animal buttons. Here we have a horse head and a reverse painted Butterfly. Issued: DIVISION 1=PRE 1918 AND

1 Medium size Japanese Arita Porcelain button. This white Pegasus on a black background is truly striking and it is a more uncommon Arita to find. Is

Z large Japanese Arita Porcelain button of a ship. Looking for a scarce large Arita from Japan in the 1950's not the later examples, you just fo...

1 Large size colorful porcelain pictorial lady figure button. This example to me is a beautiful example of a hand painted 19th century porcelain. It i

1 Very large & very rare 19th century pictorial porcelain button. This large and thick porcelain has so much going for it. It is one I consider ...

1 Very large and beautiful 19th century multi butterfly button. These next three lots are truly incredible buttons from the collection of Alethe Allen

1 Very large & gorgeous 19th C. 8 sided Satsuma scene button. Here is another among these three lots that are truly incredible buttons from the ...

1 Very large detailed 19th century Satsuma pottery Tiger button. Here is the last of the three lots that are truly incredible buttons from the collect

1 very large 19th century glass cameo set in metal button. This button similar to ne pictured in the Big Book of Buttons by Hughes and Lester is a ver

1 Large medium 19th century oval shaped glass in metal button. Here is a beautiful pink glass oval venter set in an Art Nouveau silvered brass setting

1 Large 19th century unusual shaped glass in metal button. Here is another beautiful Art Nouveau style button in an unusual shape with a turquoise blu

1 Large incredibly gorgeous 19th century glass in metal button. WOW, another Art Nouveau glass in metal. This gorgeous example is a silvered engraved

1 Large 19th C. cut steel cobalt blue glass background button. Glass in metal buttons are quite desirable and glass backgrounds are actually more desi

1 Large 19th century Oval glass in metal with paste border. Here is another for you glass in metal lovers, or those who love cobalt blue, wow where is

2 Large size large gay 90 jewel buttons in ornate mountings. These are two examples of the desirable buttons known to collectors as Gay 90 jewels set

1 Medium 1950's scarce example out of the Motiwala studios/ These are one of my favorite techniques that the Motiwala Brother Studios created in...

1 Small 18th century unusual pictorial glass in metal button. !8th century small buttons are quite desirable and are scarcer sometimes than large one.

1 Small size 18th century gold button. Again small 18th century buttons are desirable and not always easy to find. Here is a beautiful genuine gold ex

2 Medium/Large 18th century examples incl. paper Mache. Here we have a nice pinshanked bone example along with a wonderful black paper Mache with a wh

1 Large very, very rare 18th century enamel button. This extremely wonderful and rare BILSTON enamel from the 18th century was hand painted and this e

42 Small 19th century assorted technique enamel buttons. Here is a fabulous card of shapes, several pictorials including a scarce masked women, patter

24 Small/Medium/Large mostly 19th century assorted enamel buttons. This beautiful card includes a wonderful red enamel background, a large Chinese Clo

4 Medium size 19th century assorted enamel buttons. This lot includes a beautiful odd shaped champleve bordered hand painted polychrome scene, plus a

Over 150 Small 19th century black glass buttons. These two cards of full of an assortment of black glass techniques, take a close look, lots of button

OVER 60 Small/Medium/Large silver lustered black glass buttons. Here are two cards of beautiful silver lusted black glass buttons including lots of la

42 Small black glass buttons all sew thru's and whistles. This lot includes goldstone, enameled, lustered, pictorial and more. Issued: DIVISION...

25 Medium/Large 19th century black glass buttons. This lot includes several beautiful lacy examples, a cool unusual faceted shape and more. Issued: D

30 Small 19th and 20th century black glass specialized to objects. It is not every day one can find acarid of black glass objects as objects are often