Buttons (collecting)

<nowiki>collezionismo di bottoni; ボタン収集; Филобутонистика; 纽扣收藏; button collecting; Filobutonistyka; sběratelství knoflíků; coleccionismo de botones; collecting of various types of buttons; sběratelství zaměřené na knoflíky; sbírání knoflíků</nowiki>

button collecting 

collecting of various types of buttons
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Internationalization

Deutsch: Knöpfe sammeln

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English: button collecting

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Buttons by material composition

Natural materials

animal-derived

• horn

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  Buttons made from horn.

plant-derived

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  Sew-through buttons made of coconut shell
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  3-hole buttons made of vegetable ivory
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  Boutons coroso (1900)

rocks & minerals (or mineral-derived)

• ceramics

earthenware, jasperware & porcelain (or semiporcelain)

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  A modern Satsuma ware pictorial button depicting a rooster. (courtesy of Peach State Button Club) archive copy at the Wayback Machine
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  Painted porcelain 'realistic' bass fish
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  Arita ware 'realistic' seahorse button
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  Birchroft China button with transfer design
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  Jasperware button

glass

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  Vintage green glass buttons
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  White glass self-shanked pictorial woodpecker button

• metals

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  Spanish metal button with shank, ca 1650-1675 (12mm diameter)
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  Vintage metal button
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  New Zealand Royal Air Force pre-1953 brass backmarked buttons
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Synthetic materials

Synthetic polymers

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  Pre-1953 RAAF galalith or 'casein' buttons.
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  modern Australian Military Forces sew-throughs made of phenolic resin, used 1918-1950s.

multi-material buttons

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  Wedgewood jasperware button with M.Boulton cut steels, Britain, ca.1760, depicting a merfamily (courtesy of Northeast Regional Button Association).

Painted buttons

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  Agostino Brunias - West Indian Scene 1, c. 1795
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  Agostino Brunias - West Indian Scene 2, c. 1795
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  Unknown artist, gilt copper, watercolor on ivory

Buttons by construction

Styles of attachment

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  Curved wedge shank
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  2-hole sew-through
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  3-hole sew-through
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  4-hole sew-throughs

'Verbal' buttons with a commercial or official function

Uniform buttons

Military

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  New Zealand Royal Air Force pre-1953 brass backmarked buttons with King's crown
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  Modern (late 20th c.) Australian Military Forces phenolic resin sew-throughs

Tailor's buttons

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  Vinage tailor's button from Brownell's of Hobart, Tasmania
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  Vintage tailor's button from Queen Victoria Bldg, Sydney

Multiple button type displays

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  Informal (non-competitive) Australian button collection display

See also

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  Collecting
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  Textile closures