What in the world have we here? It's a large, creamed corn button in Bakelite featuring ten cutouts in the shapes of dancing worms or twisted pipe cleaners or maybe a set of doodles drawn by a blind child? The effect is a little zany and a little goofy, but somehow celebratory of that grandiose and fashion-forward party that's widely regarded as the 1920's. Exceptionally hard to come by, this old "squiggle button" is one of the fabulous finds that my friend Doreen stumbled on last summer in a major windfall of unusual Bakelite.
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-Sherbert McGee
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