Spring Button Auction Day 1
Lot 2025:
Description
This collection of Victorian-era decorative metal buttons features a variety of relief-molded designs, primarily struck in brass, copper, and silver-toned alloys. The assortment includes several picture buttons depicting figural and narrative scenes, with specific motifs identified by handwritten notations as the Trumpeter of Säckingen, Paul and Virginia, and Fanny Davenport with an umbrella. Other subjects represented in the group include various birds, insects, stags, and stylized floral patterns, alongside architectural landscapes. One button displays an openwork design accented with clear faceted paste stones. Several pieces include references to the Big Book of Buttons for identification, and one is noted to have a Paris backmark. These items are buttons presented on a labeled display board.
Display board: 8.5 x 11 inches
Button diameters: 0.5 to 1.5 inches 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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