Painted Underneath

So bright and shiny, this wonderfully smooth pileup of colors is actually a Bakelite button. Not your run-of-the-mill find, this is one of those apple juice varieties that's been painted (yellow, red, white and green) at the base. As seen from the top, the painted underside pretty much takes over the whole button and—viola!—here we have this nifty little dollop of four colors. From the 1930's.

-Sherbert McGee