Take a look at this season’s new displays, as well as the most popular ones carried over from last year. All displays can be bought separately or as part of a jewelry package.
Earring rack created with antique shoe lasts.
From the late 1800s through the mid-20thcentury, shoes were made in factories using sized, wooden shoe models or lasts. Grandmother’s Buttons recently uncovered a supply of these artifacts and transformed them into counter-top earring racks. Holds one dozen earrings.
This display was created as a by product of the company’s most popular display last year, the cigar box ring holder. The fanciful vintage graphics on the removed box tops were too beautiful to throw away, and instead the company decided to attach brightly colored vintage spools and create a whimsical wall rack.
Cigar box ring display.
For Grandmother’s Buttons’ owner Susan Davis, it is so often all about the hunt—nothing is more thrilling for her than finding a new vintage object to stalk.
Vintage Art Deco candy tin ring boxes.
The company’s best-selling rings are sterling ones set with authentic Victorian
buttons circa 1880-1900. To display these one-of-a-kind rings, they offer a selection of one-of-a-kind Art Deco candy tins from the 1920s and ‘30s. Another gratifying hunt! These boxes are an average size of 5 x 7 x 2 inches and hold up to 24 rings.
Antique textile spool necklace rack.
Around the middle of the 20th century, textile mills in England and the eastern U.S. began to modernize their looms and equipment, rendering wooden spools such as these obsolete. Grandmother’s Buttons has stacked two spools onto a jeweled candle base and topped them with a filigree stamping to create a rack to hold up to two dozen 30-inch long necklaces.
For information on individual and package pricing for these displays, please visit our website, www.grandmothersbuttons.com, call 800-580-6941, email info@grandmothersbuttons.com, or write P.O. Box 1689, St. Francisville, LA 70775.
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ReplyDeleteCollecting buttons has been one of the most popular hobbies of all times. Buttons can be used for a variety of purposes, right from holding a coat secure, to card-making and appliqué-work. But most importantly buttons add a touch of beauty and colour to life. Buttons are one of those little joys that create life delightful.
Some museums and art galleries hold culturally, historically, politically, and/or artistically significant buttons in their collections.
The Victoria & Albert Museum has many buttons, particularly
in its jewellery collection, as does the Smithsonian Institution.
Hammond Turner & Sons, a button-making company in Birmingham, hosts an online museum with an image gallery and historical button-related articles, including an 1852 article on button-making by Charles Dickens. In the USA, large button collect are on public display at The Waterbury Button Museum of Waterbury, Connecticut, and the Keep Homestead Museum of Monson, Massachusetts, which also hosts an extensive online button archive.
Early button history
Buttons and button-like objects used as ornaments or seals rather than fasteners have been discovered in the Indus Valley Civilization during its Kot Diji phase (circa 2800-2600 BCE) as well as Bronze Age sites in China (circa 2000-1500 BCE), and Ancient Rome.
Buttons made from seashell were used in the Indus Valley Civilization for ornamental purposes by 2000 BCE. Some buttons were carved into geometric shapes and had holes pierced into them so that they could be attached to clothing with thread. Ian McNeil (1990) holds that: "The button, in fact, was originally used more as an ornament than as a fastening, the earliest known being found at Mohenjo-daro in the Indus Valley. It is made of a curved shell and about 5000 years old."
Functional buttons with buttonholes for fastening or closing clothes appeared first in Germany in the 13th century. They soon became widespread with the rise of snug-fitting garments in 13th- and 14th-century Europe.
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Oh, these are just wonderful. You have made fantastic creations. I hope you will also include close-up pictures of your products. Hopefully, you could help me in buying vintage art deco rings. I know you find many things in your hunt.
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