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Florida Fall Button Discovery, Day One
Florida Fall Button Discovery, Day One
Auction Currency
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Auction Location
200 Oakwood Lane Ste 200
,
Hollywood
,
Florida
,
33020
,
United States
Auction Details
Florida Fall Button Discovery, Day One presents a remarkable selection from a lifelong collection of antique buttons, books, and historical assortments. The sale features 19th and early 20th century uniform and military buttons, State Seal designs, and examples from divisions one through three of the National Button Society classification system. Collectors will also find reference volumes by Don VanCourt and Warren Tice that document the study and artistry of button history.
The catalog offers an exciting mix of materials and forms, including brass, pewter, gilt, and enamel buttons, along with hand painted and engraved examples. Highlights include carded assortments of uniform buttons, large mixed bag lots, and early groupings that showcase craftsmanship from the Civil War through the modern era. Many lots include notes, provenance, and identification details valuable to collectors and researchers alike.
Whether you are searching for military insignia, early patriotic examples, or rare state and civic issues, this first day of the Florida Fall Button Discovery sale provides a unique opportunity. With its blend of scholarship and history, the auction celebrates the artistry, variety, and enduring appeal of the button collecting tradition.
2025 Oct 28
10:00
UTC-04:00 : AST/EDT
Florida Fall Button Discovery, Day One
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A small card of division one jeweled buttons
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7 Medium/Large 19th century assorted paste set examples. This is a really nice card of jeweled buttons. The card includes a beautiful cobalt set filig
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A division one Litho under glass button
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1 Large 19th C. colored paper example in a Rococo metal setting. This beautifully execute colored litho on paper is set under glass and mounted in a f
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A division three two piece make-up button
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1 Medium size 20th century Colt Rouge button. Here we have a very desirable button not just among button collectors but gun collectors as well, as thi
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A division one pictorial female button.
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1 Large early 20th C. pierced brass border with detailed female. We are unsure of the gray tinted material in the center of this set in brass example.
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A small card of division one head buttons
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3 Large 19th century female and male examples. This card includes a wonderful and hard to find high relief silver and gold finished brass English head
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A division one porcelain in metal button
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1 Medium 19th century blue background Liverpool style example. Colored backgrounds on the desirable buttons are quite sought after and this nice condi
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A division three carved white material pictorial button
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1 Large 20th century oval Meerschaum depicting a jester. This detailed example was hand made in Turkey and signed by a well known artist there. An Ame
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A pair of division one wood Asian themed buttons
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2 Large 19th century brass escutcheoned wood examples. Here is a really cool pair of fine concave wood buttons adorned with brass Asian heads (one mal
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A small card of division one Cinnabar buttons
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3 Medium/Large early 20th century examples including in metal. Here is a nice selection of these red Chinese Cinnabar buttons from the late 19th early
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A small card of buttons from Japan
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3 Medium 20th century Japanese Arita porcelain examples. Arita buttons from the Arita province of Japan are certainly desirable buttons among collecto
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A small card of division three Asian metal buttons
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19 Small/Medium 20th century Damascene & Niello Examples. From Connie Robinsons collection comes this nice selection of buttons in a variety of ...
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A small card of division one Cinnabar buttons
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6 S/M/L early 20th C. examples including a rare green example. Although the typical colors in Chines Cinnabar buttons is red, other colors are found a
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A small card of division one Cinnabar buttons
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3 S/M/L early 20th Century including a rare example. I have never seen an old carved Cinnabar button with a carved Rabbit on it (medium size) and this
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A division one colored disk Asian female figure button
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1 Large late 19th century natural material in metal button. Here is a wonderfully executed and detailed colored natural material Chinoiserie button mo
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A small card of studio artist buttons
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3 Large 20th/21st century examples including Bob Benson. This lot includes two examples of Bob Bensons work, one with a turquoise stone center and one
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A small card of division three studio artist buttons
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5 Medium size 20th century Scarce color Jasperware examples. This card of Insect Jasperware buttons were custom made by the late Stella Rzanski and we
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A small card of division three studio artist buttons
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4 Medium 20th century paperweight examples by Jaques Israel. This lot includes a great and unusual sulphide of a horse and rider over a swirl colored
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A division three studio artist pictorial button
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A large 20th century example by artist Nikki Deal. This is one of Nikki's prized studio example because it came from her personal collection, no...
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A small card of Div 3 studio artist pictorial buttons
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5 Medium/Large 20th century Watch Crystal examples. These large and medium watch crystal buttons were made by the late Theodore Gates and have become
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A division three studio artist button
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A Medium size 20th century pictorial paperweight glass button Here is a great sulphide paperweight glass button by the late Theresa Rarig. This sulphi
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