• Large peasant silver cloak clasp c 1900
• American glass horoscope studio buttons c 1970s
• Vegetable ivory button with shamrocks c 1900
• Possibly Wartime - c 1940 - laminated wooden button, lacquered black - at first glance looks like bakelite, the back's the giveaway.

At the July Annual General Meeting the members present were treated to an indulgence of exquisite new finds in buttons, which included a late 19th century Shibayama, mid 19th cenrury inlaid horn and a hand-painted late Victorian porcelain button. Also seven Arita buttons and a set of Victorian porcelain hatpins and blouse buttons.

A jar full of the humble vegetable ivory whistle buttons (late 19th century) from an "op shop", now mounted on card. At first look, they all look the same - but on closer inspection, they are all different;

Ha! Bought at a committee meeting.

- 3 veil buttons circa 1890

- 1920 Bakelite palm tree

Give a thought to doing a stint on the committee - sometimes there are perks!

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Brass filigree buckle - c 1930
Celluloid buckle - 1900
Buckle & button set made from coconut shell - c 1950
Card of buttons punched out of old Australian pennies
A little box of old, dead gorgeous buttons, most from late 19th century.

The February meeting was more than a little frenetic and a little overwhelming.

Was it the number of buttons on show or the large turn-out of people for the first meeting of the year or all the “new finds” or the fourteen auction items?!