Now here's what I call definitive ripsnorters. These buttons are as huge as they are gorgeous. With construction similar to the sunny AJ button in my last post, this pair of buttons consist of black bases with sun-cut edges. More impressively, the tops of the buttons are massive dollops of orange juice Bakelite. Plumply bulbous mounds, they sport carved details and tremendous heft. Majorly chunky, these buttons are almost baseballs! Studying their awesome shape and decorative might, I see a couple of two-tone suns, but these buttons could just as easily be a pair of behemoth flowers. What do you see? Purchased in New York City at a now-closed antique shop in Midtown Manhattan, the price tag on these had them listed as being made in the 1930's. Total classics, these really belong in a Fashion History Museum in a section devoted to early plastics.
-Sherbert McGee
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