Unbuttoned: The Spring Button Auction, Day 2

1 Medium size early 20th century thistle with marcasite OME. Here is a very incredible and cool 4 material button. The base is mother of pearl with an

1 Medium 1930's hand painted shell side saddle rider example. This button was hand painted in Persia around the 1930's and they were lacquer...

17 S/M/L 19th/20th century assorted technique examples. This card includes a nice carved Bethlehem pearl figural, a great Coachmen's style engra...

1 Extra large early 19th century Coachman's example. Here is a beautifully hand engraved and pigmented thick pearl with a detailed coaching sce...

1 Medium size 19th century hand painted shell horse button.  This button from a larger set is incredibly detailed and hand painted in the...

25 S/M/L 18th-20th century assorted technique examples. This is a lovely card of shell and pearl buttons including some wonderful examples like a coup

1 Medium 19th century Eifel Tower and French Fop example. The pearl on the background of this brass pictorial steel cup button is so colorful and has

4 Large 19th century examples including pictorial. This small card from the collection of Nikki Deal includes a wonderful depiction in brass over pear

84 Small 19th century Victorian period metal examples. This lot includes Victorian celluloids, pictorials, patterns and more. Great selection. Dimens

A large 19th century pierced heavy silver example. This lovely example in fine silver shows a male and female couple. Large silvers are not anywhere n

1 Extra Large 19th century example of Tom Thumb riding a butterfly. I have always loved this hand hammered silvered brass background button with a pe

1 Large early 20th century copper colored brass button with detail. This highly detailed Art Nouveau design in low relief is finely crafted and depict

1 Extra large approx. 4" copper Chinese fabulous creature button. Here is another beautifully detailed extra large 19th century or earlier butt...

12 Medium/Large 19th century metal pictorial examples. This assortment includes many brass examples, pewter and cut steel OME. DimensionsSM=Less than

5 Small early 19th century Jacksonian buttons. This card includes an elegant prancing horse, an eagle with 13 stars, a floral example and 2 Jacksonian

6 Medium 20th century examples including vintage and studio. This lot includes some nice old examples along with an example made by the studio artist

1 Large 20th Century Sterling example by Sid Bell. Sid Bell's buttons have become quite desirable and I am sure this backmarked and signed Whale...

2 Extra Large 20th century special edition examples by Rzanski. The buttons on this small card were custom made in this colorway and we are almost at

1 Large engraved Pin Shell Peacock by Nancy Dubois of New Jersey. We have stated this in previous auctions that Nancy is one of the very talented arti

1 Large early 20th century spinach Jade long legged bird example. Here is a beautifully crafted dark green "Spinach" jade button of a real...

1 Large 20th century multi colored Boulder OPAL example. This highly prized natural and very durable variety of Opal gemstones comes from the Cretace

1 Large late 19th century pierced Gemstone example. This is a beautiful and wonderful engraved and pierced Carnelian stone carved in the realistic sha

1 Large pierced 19th century Victorian celluloid example. Bruce told us he was blown away to fInd this button on a card from the collection of Nikki D

6 Large 19th/20tyh century examples including Gay 90's. This lot includes a large pierced brass Gay 90 example with a rust brown cabochon center...

1 Large late 19th century Gay 90's example. Here is a beautiful and ornate detailed example of a genuine Gay 90 button. This example is a pierce...

3 Large 19th century authentic Gay 90 examples. This small card includes some wonderful examples of these desirable type buttons known as Gay 90'...

1 Large late 19th century Gay 90's example. Here is a beautiful and ornate detailed example of a genuine Gay 90 button. This example is a pierce...

2 Medium 20th century Asian themed reverse paintings on glass. These very cool buttons are beautifully executed and were imported from China many year

1 Medium square 19th century relief Shakudo example with DF. Here is a wonderful example of Japanese metal works known as Shakudo. The detailed figure

A gorgeous Lg-Med. 19th C. gold dotted figural Satsuma example. This is a beautifully executed 19th century example of hand painting on Japanese Satsu

14 Medium 20th century Satsuma and Arita Examples. This lot includes a nice colorful set of Arita porcelain immortal gods from Japan along with a colo

1 Large-Medium 19th century gold dotted example. Here is a beautiful example of 19th century Japanese artistry on Satsuma pottery. The exquisite colo

20 Small/Medium 19th/20th century assorted Satsuma examples. Here are two small cards of Japanese ceramics known as Satsuma buttons. These buttons wer

8 Medium/Large early 20th century floral Stud examples. Here we have 8 lovely hand painted examples of early 20th century porcelain work. The variety

1 Large oval 21st C. rare color Jasperware button by Rzanski. You may be asking why do we say this is a rare Jasperware. Well the fact is there were o

1 Large 20th century example by Nikki Deal. Here is a beautiful example made by Nikki Deal of Missouri. This bright and colorful example of a Sun face

1 Large enamel decorated glass 21st C. cobalt children button. This example is one of the most desirable and harder to find today example and is calle

1 Extra Large 20th century scarce coloration Jasperware button. Here is a hard to find coloration of Jasperware by the late Stella Rzanski. This color

1 Large Medium 20th century realistic Sammoth Pottery example. These fun buttons have become quite the rage in recent years. They are pottery buttons

10 Medium/Large 20th century ceramics by Connie Robinson. These buttons not only were made by the ceramicist Connie Robinson of Florida, these are fro

6 Medium/Large 20th/21st century colorful lampwork examples. This fun lot from the eclectic collection of Nikki Deal includes a variety of subject mat

27 Small 19th century examples including Coralene. This selection includes 2 nice Coralene examples, a peacock eye glass example, popper glass and mor

1 Large-Medium oval 1940's oval silver lustered Bimini Glass. Here is a nicely detailed example of a Ballerina. Bimini glass was made in England...

3 Small 19th century including spindle shaped lacy examples. Here are three beautiful Lacy glass examples from the late 1900's from the Czech re...

1 Large 19th century floral example. This is a beautiful pictorial button that is desirable among collectors. This floral design is beautifully detail

21 Small 19th century metal backed kaleidoscope examples. This card includes a wonderful array of colors, fancy tops and more. Notice the nice colorfu

1 Small 19th century Tingue button in a bell shape. Tingues are a desirable technique in glass buttons by collectors but rarely do we see this realist

35 S/M/L 20th century examples including pictorials. Here is a very colorful glass card that Connie Robinson compiled. The card includes vintage moong

1 Large medium late 20th century enameled back example. This button from the collection of the late Jean Young of California was purchased by her from

1 Large Victorian era yellow jeweled example. Yellow jewels of the Gay 90 period are not readily available, amber and gold are more readily available,