Button Score!

**peanut** · 07-02-2009, 07:33 PM

I was helping a friend at a garage sale today and saw this old tobacco tin. I picked it up and it was heavy! Well, guess why? I opened it up and went 'oooooh'. It was full of old buttons. My friend gave it to me. Buttons that are 50 - 100 years old. Fascinating to look at. I spent this afternoon with another friend dividing them into colours and types and organizing them in general. Oooooh!...

**Jamielane** · 07-02-2009, 07:49 PM

Excellent find! Congratulations!

**AmyBoz** · 07-02-2009, 08:13 PM

Great score! I think old buttons are really cool, and if you are into sewing, they can be very helpful!

**Elphaba524** · 07-02-2009, 08:34 PM

Nice!! I bet it was really fun to sort through them all.

**Debbie-cat** · 07-02-2009, 08:45 PM

Oh peanut!! What fun! I love old buttons and always wonder who wore them on what.

**frugalwarrior** · 07-02-2009, 09:12 PM

I love stuff like that. I have an old tobacco tin from my grandpa. I gave the buttons to my cousin. I was 12 and at grandmas. I said what's this. She said just old buttons. I dumped it out and inside the buttons was grampas false teeth partial. I dropped it and screamed. My grandma laughed and laughed. Like I said I gave the buttons to my cousin.

**frugalfranny** · 07-03-2009, 02:05 AM

Oh what a find! Do you know anything about them?

My aunt took a bunch of my moms old buttons, many of which had been on the clothes sew sewed for me, made a heart shaped pillow and just sewed a bunch of them on it. I love it and think of mom and her sewing every time I look at it.

**missyali** · 07-03-2009, 10:41 AM

I love old buttons! My grandma used to keep tins of them as well. Along with zippers that she salvaged from clothes beyond repair. I always love looking at the CRAZY colors from decades past!

**peanut** · 07-03-2009, 11:02 AM

Thanks for the idea of what to do with them Frugal Franny. My friend was over yesterday afternoon and she helped me sort the white ones. I had been sorting by colour before she arrived. There are some real cute ones. A couple of maple leaf ones that are carved really struck my eye. And these huge almost 2" diameter blue buttons for a coat. I have just the fabric to put those on! Now if I dare to wear the finished garment in public is another matter! I wonder if my buttonholer makes a buttonhole that big?

**nuisance26** · 07-03-2009, 04:25 PM

~OooooooooOOOooooOOOo!!!!!!! Can I come over and ogle them please?????? I love vintage buttons!~

**lilk** · 07-11-2009, 08:14 AM

I'm glad to hear you found a treasure. I love old buttons, I have my MIL's old buttons. Have fun with them and if you use them on any upcoming projects, show us some pictures.

**Michelle** · 07-11-2009, 09:21 AM

What a score

**mauimagic** · 07-11-2009, 03:39 PM

What a treasure!!! Why don't you post some pictures of the more unusual ones? Share your gift with those of use less fortunate

**Darlene** · 07-11-2009, 07:35 PM

Little things DO mean alot!

**peanut** · 07-11-2009, 07:41 PM

Nuisance: I might just have you over one day...if I ever finish organizing them!

MM: well...give me awhile and you might just get some pics! Some of them are rather unique. There's some that look like small mother-of-pearl that may have come from gloves...they're so tiny.