Large antique mother of pearl button, creamy iridescent white. The lower half has bands of incised neo-classical style decoration, and the top half is delicately engraved with leaves and flowers, filled in with gold paint. Plain white pearl on the back, with four-way metal box shank. A rare and lovely collectable in good vintage condition.

Size 1.4” (3.7 cm)

Vintage dark green moss agate, with subtle specks of red inside the stone, made into stud buttons. Polished domed shape with flat back and metal stud type shank attached. (White spots on the photos are just reflections of light). Price is for the pair.

Size 15/16” (2.4 cm)

Vintage/antique button with a solid core, covered in either loosely woven cream fabric, or cream crochet. This is embellished with a four-petal flower or cross, worked in pale pastel shaded glass beads, with a cluster of pink beads between each petal. Charming collectable

Size 15/16” (2.3 cm)

Antique flower button, with gilt metal stylised flowers and leaves, on a gilt metal background, inside a pressed metal rim. Two-part construction with grey metal back and loop shank.

Size 7/8” (2.2 cm)

Vintage/antique picture button, showing a molded horse’s head in high relief, framed by a horse shoe. The metal has some kind of silvered finish on brass, though some of the silver has rubbed away. Two-part construction, hollow inside, and air holes on the flat back, with a stud type shank. An unusual equestrian collectable.

Size 1.2” (3 cm) tall

Large vintage/antique fabric covered button, over a solid core. The black moire silk is painted with a wreath of white flowers tied with a pink bow. The button is embellished with a beaded border of tiny pink and silver glass beads. Fabric is gathered on the back. Possibly once a mourning button, but now a very pretty collectible - large statement piece.

Size 1.6” (4 cm)

Set of 6 mother of pearl cardigan buttons, still attached to fragment of original card. Lovely creamy white iridescent colour, slightly domed shape with fish-eye centre and flat back. Price is for the set of 6

Size 11/16” (1.7 cm)

Unusual, vintage, winged clasps, made of some kind of early hard plastic. One side is a pair of wings attached to a round ball, and this hooks into the other side which is a circle with off-centre hole. Each side has two sewing holes for attaching to fabric. Would make an interesting clasp for a cardigan, jacket, etc. Price is per closure

Size 1.6” (4 cm) across both sides when closed

Collection of various small vintage/antique buttons, all with mother of pearl centres and gilt metal frames. Includes dress buttons, an Austrian tiny, a square pearl insert, a small domed pearl with engraved gilt border, etc. All have metal loop shanks. Re-mounted on card as they store and travel better like that. Price is for the card of 6

Sizes from 7/16” - 9/16” (1.1 - 1.4 cm)

Small pressed and pierced gilt metal buttons, embellished with individual cut steels rivetted through the base. Think loop shank. Price is per button

Size 9/16” (1.4 cm)

Vintage red glass button, with molded spider and spider’s web highlighted in silver lustre. Flat back and raised self shank.

Size 3/4” (1.8 cm)

Antique stud button with rustic portrait of a female figure in a hat, leaning pensively on her hand. The porcelain front is held in a gilt metal rim, and attached to a bone back and stud type shank. Sadly the image is rather worn but still has vintage charm and the button has some age, as indicated by the bone back

Size 3/4” (1.9 cm).

Antique solitaire or bachelor button with detachable shank which is released with a spring mechanism. The top is grey coloured, possibly silver-plated or pewter, and shows a molded bunch of flowers in high relief, surrounded by brass rim. White metal back with the spring release shank. Backstamped (faintly): WESTS PATENT which is just legible, with a slightly unusual logo of an incised lion above the shank.

Size 1” (2.6 cm)

Antique brass flower button with stamped design of blossom on branches with spikey thorns. “French tight” construction with two parts welded together, .and a tunnel shank. Backstamped AP&CIE PARIS, BREVETE.

Size 1.1” (2.8 cm)

Antique cut steel buttons, with a pierced brass base and circles of very small cut steels individually rivetted to the base. Metal loop shank. Price is per button. Slight signs of age but plenty of sparkle left

Size 1” (2.6 cm)

Antique, late 18th century, button with grey-silver coloured metal top, probably pewter, which may once have had a bright silver tin coating. The delicate stamped design echoes the pattern on thread or ribbon wound buttons of the same period. The edge of the metal folds over the solid bone back. Four holes in the bone back would once have held catgut thread, which formed a shank to sew the button to a garment, but after 250 years, the catgut is missing. Still a rare collectable.

Size 1.1” (2.8 cm)