What began in the spring of 2023 has grown into a true community project—our Visual Bethlehem Peal pages. Built with the heart and hands of many collectors, our project debuted at the Portland NBS convention, adding images to the text-only mail-order advertisements once featured in Just Buttons magazine throughout the 1960s and ’70s.
The original ads help us trace the legacy of Bethlehem Pearl buttons, handmade in the Middle East and mailed . . .
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