Of course I have buttons - lots of them.  Some are still on their cards, real
treasures, others are in the round and oblong tin boxes I inherited from
various relatives. The boxes, often advertising tobacco, are probably
collectors items in themselves.  Then there are plastic bags of unsorted
buttons - whenever will I have thetime to do that?  Pearl buttons on card
covered with silver foil are far too nice to use.  I never seem to have the
right number to put onto any garment - there is aways one tantalising button
missing.

Buttons from my Grandmother include some lovely Victorian ones in Jet, crystal
glass and ornamental metal.  Others are the old-fashioned linen buttons once
used on pillow-cases and underwear.  At one time there was a good Button
Museum in Ross-on-Wye. but I believe it is closed now.  Buttons are good items
for a Collector to begin with as many are still available in Charity shops,
car-boot sales etc.

Have button-fun

Angela in Worcestershire UK
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