South Florida Spring Button Auctions

1 Large size 19th century filigree and solid silver example. Large examples in this fine condition are not readily available. This nice example has wo

12 Medium/Large 19th-20th century white metal buttons. This lot includes a wonderful pictorial Hallmarked silver with great detail of Ophelia, a great

21 S/M/L mostly 19th century flat steel examples. This card includes a large variety of flat steel with escutcheons, engraving, tooling and abrading,

21 Medium 19th-20th C. specialized to white incl. pictorials. This is a cool partial card of buttons and includes some really fantastic examples that

15 Small/Medium 20th century silvers buttons including figural. Most of the buttons in this lot are Siamese Niello buttons with the exception of a cou

1 Large early 20th century silvered brass realistic example. This charming example of a Kate Greenaway design shows a boy carrying flowers at the fenc

4 Small early 20th century domed wood children buttons. This adorable set is uncommon to find in the complete set like this. The center is believed to

10 Medium /Large 20th century hand painted Russian buttons. Nice card of pictorial designs from Russia. The lot includes several very colorful pictori

20 Medium/Large 20th-21st century including Wood-Gourd-Cork. Here is an interesting card. If you know Nikki Deal of Missouri she collected a vast vari

1 Large 19th century Wood Background Lion button. Here is an uncommon hard to find wood background button with a full body walking Lion escutcheon. Th

1 Large 20th century Russian Lacquer pictorial elephants button. Here is a beautifully crafted Russian Lacquer artist button from the late 20th centur

1 Large 19th century tole and lacquer button. This is an unusual example of tole and lacquer work on a brass button. The back and front are blackened

1 Medium 20th century openwork Egyptian Scarab button. Here is very nice silver tested pierced openwork detailed scarab in the Egyptian style. Scarabs

1 Extra Large silver & silver wirework 20th century button. Here is a button sold by Tender Buttons many years ago to this consignor. It is a ve...

1 Small size 19th century unmarked GOLD example. Here is a wonderful 19th century snake button in solid gold. The consignor, a known collector and dea

1 Large 1930's patterned background white metal Egyptian. These French white metal buttons have certainly become quite desirable in the recent y...

21 Medium 18th-20th century white metal buttons including silver. This lot includes a wonderful modified square engraved pictorial silver example from

4 Large 19th century buttons with 4 different sporting scenes. This fun and whimsical set is pictured in the BBB by Hughes and Lester on page 659. You

21 Medium 19th-20th C. specialized to white incl. pictorials. This is another cool partial card of buttons and includes some really fun examples that

11 Large 19th century assorted center steel cup buttons. This nice assortment includes a scarce domed faceted black glass center, some nice pictorials

25 M/L 19th century cut steel and cut steel OME buttons. This card has a great selection of brass with steel and cut steel buttons. A variety of shoes

20 Small/Medium size assorted subject matter Damascenes. These Vintage and modern examples found on this card represent a variety of shapes, patterns

1 Large pierced 1 piece early 20th C. finely detailed buckle. Here is a beautiful 1 piece buckle in the Damascene technique and found here in impeccab

6 Large 1 and 2 pieced buckles including Cameo. This lot of buckles includes a cameo centered two piece example, a nice two piece example with red pas

2 19th century two piece clasps including pearl and pictorials. Here are two different buckle/clasps, one shows us a two piece carved pearl with a bra

1 Large early 20th century PEACOCK EYE glass 2 piece buckle! Here is an exquisitely crafted Art Nouveau designed 2 piece silver buckle with Peacock ey

2 Large 20th century 2 piece buckle including Casein. Here we have one very large 2 piece red Casein with a hand painted design on top along with a 2

A large 19th century 2 piece Satsuma set in metal buckle. Here is a beautiful and colorful buckle handmade in Japan in the late 1800's. The flor...

A Large pictorial earlier 20th century Satsuma Button Here is a very colorful and finely painted Japanese Satsuma button depicting a village and Mt Fu

1 Medium size 19th century hand decorated Asian figural button. I just love these hand made buttons in lacquered paper Mache in the Chinoiserie style.

1 Large 19th century stunning example from Japan. Take a good look as this heavy dotted gold example as it is quite a stunning example of 19th century

1 Large size 20th century Arita porcelain pictorial button Here is a large Japanese button from the Arita Province depicting a coiled Dragon in gold o

1 Large-Medium 19th century oval Shibayama Button. Here is a beautifully hand crafted 19th century natural material inlayed button in the Shibayama te

7 Medium size 20th century shaped Kutani Porcelain examples. Here is a set of the 7 Gods in a more unusual material of Kutani Porcelain. Most sets in

1 Scarce Large Shakudo button with a meaning! Tin Dang once again has explained the meaning behind the depiction on this great and unusual Shakudo but

1 Large medium 19th century very detailed Japanese pottery button. This detailed Satsuma button with lots of gold depicts a meaning that our Tin Dang

13 Small/Medium 20th century Japanese assorted ceramic buttons. Nice selection including Arita, Kutani and Satsuma. Issued: DIVISION 1=PRE 1918 AND D

39 Small/Medium/Large 19th/20th C. assorted material buttons. This card of Asian themed buttons is from the collection of the late Pauline Lum of Cali

1 Medium size oval 19th century "Pate Sur Pate" button. This example has been always considered to be in this technique of Pate Sur Pate b...

1 Large 19th century "Liverpool" transfer button. These very large size buttons in this technique are not plentiful, especially with color...

2 Medium size 19th century high relief colored glass heads. Here we have two different beautifully made white glass in metal with high relief heads th

1 Medium 19th century gold gilt silver example with fine detail. These examples are not at all common and this gold gilt silver is framed and accented

1 Large late early 20th century high relief sailor button. I have always loved this button for its relief work and its detail, not to mention after lo

1 Medium oval early 19th century button made of BERLIN Iron. Here is a true rarity in buttons as one of the only examples to ever surface in this mate

1 Large polychrome enamel with a rare silver resist finish. When Karen Cohen was writing her new book on enamels we sent her many images that she used

1 Large 19th century multi colored enamel in an ornate setting. Here is an absolutely gorgeous foil embedded enamel button from the 19th century. The

1 Large-Medium 1 1/4" 19th C. colorful Gin Bari enamel example. These stunning foil backed Cloissonne buttons were made in Japan during the lat...

1 Large 20th century enamel pictorial with a scarce paste border. The Motiwala Brothers of India were entrepreneurs in the 1950's and 60's a...

1 Large 1960's enamel pictorial by the late Herman Lowenstein. Herman Lowenstein was an enamel artist in the 1960's and made these colorful ...

24 S/M/L 19th-20th century assorted material examples. This card of ships includes a nice red Burwood, a very nice Satsuma example, glass, Jasperware,