Spring Button Auction Day 2
Lot 2819:
Description
This collection of antique and vintage buttons is primarily crafted from bone, with specific examples identified as camel bone, antler, and natural horn. The items are displayed on red, tan, brown, and blue mounting cards, accompanied by a printed informational sheet titled How Button Makers Have Used Bone. The collection demonstrates various decorative techniques including intricate carving, piercing, dyeing, and inlaying with shell or metal. Motifs present across the assortment range from simple geometric and floral patterns to elaborate designs featuring human faces, shells, and animals such as elephants, birds, and lizards. Labeling on the cards provides historical and geographical context, noting modern examples from India dating to the 1950s through 1970s, as well as sections designated for Plain Old Bone and New(er) buttons. These items are buttons that exhibit a wide variety of sizes and styles consistent with 19th and 20th-century production.
Mounting cards approximately 9 to 12 inches in width. Pick up is Friday, March 13 from 10 am to 4 pm at our gallery in Lancaster, Ohio 43130 or we will provide in-house shipping for this item. We will charge a $5 fee if you want to pick this lot up another day. Once packed up we will send you an invoice for shipping & handling. Shipping questions: [email protected]. Sales tax is collected on this auction.
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