How could I resist these bulbous gems? I bought them earlier this year from an antique vendor in Leavenworth, Kansas. Made of apple juice Bakelite, these buttons sport bits of red and yellow paint at their bottoms. Round as gumdrops, I flipped one of them over to show the metal shank and also a clearer view of the paint, which was applied to faintly carved etches in the Bakelite. These buttons have the look of amber bubbles. They go back to the 1920's.
-Sherbert McGee
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