Antique works of art that once adorned opera capes of the Gay `90s or a child`s christening gown from the 1800s are enjoying a rebirth as rings, brooches, clip and pierced earrings, cufflinks and ...

The buttons come in a dizzying array of colors, sizes and materials -- from porcelain and mother-of-pearl to celluloid, stenciled tin and Bakelite. The "flapper girls" are china buttons made in ...

For 37 years, Grandmother's Buttons has floated in time, anchored by its 19th- and 20th-century antique button jewelry on the fringes of the digital age. The business has a website, and it's easily ...

Exhibit: The button exhibit can be viewed through March at the Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave., Coeur d’Alene. Club: The Historical Button Club meets at noon the second Wednesday of ...

For a certain kind of crafter, nothing pushes their buttons like, well, buttons. And among button collectors, vintage buttons appear to be a favorite find. While a few button stores still exist — ...

Sara Mulford, president of the New Jersey State Button Society, displays and sells buttons at one of its shows. Mulford is from the Swedesboro/Woolwich Township area. TITUSVILLE -- Thousands of ...

Jean Behringer scoffs at those who deride button-collecting as a hobby somehow less intellectual than sorting stamps or amassing coins. “Why, buttons are art and history in miniature,” said Behringer, ...

A pair of extremely rare antique buttons bought for £40 fetched a staggering £61,000 at an auction. Gary Quittenton-Shaw, 58, snapped up the buttons which were included in a bunch of items he bought ...

Mandy Roussel has received Grandmother's Buttons' endorsement. Well, the endorsement came before Grandmother's Buttons closed its 37-year-old antique button jewelry business in December, when Roussel ...

First-time button conventioneers Karen and David Taylor from Albuquerque New Mexico, view a button judging wall at the Mining in Button Mountains National Button Society convention at the Crowne Plaza ...