Posted 11 months ago
kwqd
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This Murano (?) glass button is about 1" long x .5" wide. The back is faceted and there is no maker's mark. It appears to have either a gold or aventurine inclusion. Pretty fancy little button.
When my Aunt Faye died in 2000 at the age of 91, the family held an estate sale. They invited me, but when I got there, almost everything was gone. I had hoped to score some family cast iron or other things from my grandmother. She had really good taste! At any rate, my cousin was very apologetic and told me that I could have whatever I wanted from what remained. I scored Aunt Faye's large steel sewing box. I think it once contained a cake? I also got a nice eye cup and maybe other stuff I don't remember. Aunt Faye was my Mom's older sister.
I like getting things that people actually regularly used. I tried to get my Dad's sister to leave me the #5 Wagner skillet she used every day but she was too practical to have it mailed to me after she died in 2002. She left me a lot of valuable things but I always regret not getting that skillet.
At any rate, I got the sewing box out to sew up a new pair of moccasins that started coming apart a month after buying them and decided to organize the sewing gear and started by getting all of the buttons in one pile so that I could put them in a plastic bag.
The star was this Murano (?) button, but there were also quite a few Bakelite buttons, fancy plastic buttons, mother of pearl buttons, etc., and one Missouri $1 sales tax plastic coin that was apparently heated and formed to bend it. I suspect that this cake tin may have belonged to my grandmother, who died in 1958, but that is just a guess.
Those cabochon buttons are simply wonderful !~
Buttons were so much more interesting back then…and you have a nice assortment.
The Murano one must have been prominently featured on a blouse or dress. So pretty!
I can understand your disappointment in not getting that skillet.
I recently, unexpectedly, was given my parents old iron kettle that they used on their wood stove as a humidifier. It was significant to them because it was made at a foundry in their home town (also my hometown). It’s old and rusty but a treasure to me.
Lovely items from your Aunt Faye, the red button is especially beautiful
That's a beautiful button. I love estate sales, but seems like I'm never quick enough or aggressive enough to score any of the good stuff. I'm glad you at least ended up with her buttons. They're really beautiful!!!
Cool.. I especially like the tax token since I have a small collection of them...
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/302046-1930s--40s-washington-state-tax-tokens
Also have some plastic Washington state ones..there's a couple in this post..
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/290346-box-of-coins
Beautiful, like small jewels, makes you wonder what the original garment was they came from. Must have been really special.
Thanks, Phil! I was quite surprised to find it in the pile!
Congrats on scoring that kettle, Watchsearcher! Yeah, no idea what that button was on. All that generation have passed, but I have a couple of first cousins who might know what it was on.
Thanks, Jenni! The pile in the bowl is pretty deep and there are many smaller buttons under the surface.
Thanks, Jscott0363! Yeah, estate sales are not my usual hunting ground.
Thanks, dav2no1! I had missed one of those posts. Not sure if I ever ran across any of these when I lived in Washington state.
Thanks for your comments, BHIFOS! i will ask my cousins if they recognize this button.
Thanks for loving my button pile, Cisum, BHIFOS, dav2no1, fortapache, jscott0363, Blammoammo, mikelv85, Jenni, vcal, Watchsearcher, WhenIsraelbelieves, kev123, PhilDMorris, and Vynil33rpm!
Thanks for taking a look, Watchsearcher, ehunt, kivatinitz and Leelani!
Thank you, SEAN68!