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’21-11: NP I: Great Big Potato

  by Mika Jarmusz With the great big baked potato  (railstograils.org) advertising with gusto to increase ridership, NP’s brand new uniform button was introduced in 1913. It is the button […]

’21-10: From Your VP Candidate

From Your VP Candidate Dear Button Friends, Our newly forming leadership team is going to transform WRBA. Leveraging the Button Album, our precious community asset, WRBA members will start receiving […]

’21-09: Jeopardy Quiz

  This company registered the Equestrian Knight logo in 1901.  It contains the word “Prorsum”, meaning forwards. In 1914, the company was commissioned by the War Office to adapt its officer’s coats […]

’21-08 Introducing Button Aerogramme

Remember aerogramme, a thin sheet of light blue paper that folds into an envelope framed by the red and blue airmail stripe border, with pre-printed postage stamp?

Archive: Territorial News – Newsletter

The Western Regional Button Association published its quarterly newsletter called the Territorial News until the fall of 2021. WRBA is pleased to share our older educational articles with the button-collecting community. […]

2021–01 Feb –Durell, Sylvia–BUTTONS + HANKIE = FISH

My Pink Button Fish started with the beautiful fabric that I used for the background. After looking at it for a couple weeks, I got the inspiration to do a pink fish. I thought the buttons would make the perfect representation of fish scales, so I sewed them on in a layered effect. I came across a pretty vintage handkerchief for the fins, which I stuffed and sewed to create a 3 -D effect. She looks quite feminine, I think !

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