Painted Apple Juice: Dark Bouquet

Here's another apple juice button made of Bakelite and bursting with flowers. The button was carved at the base with a design of blossoms clustered between shoots of grass. The carved areas were then filled in with yellow, violet, pink and green paint. The flowers resemble bunched pompoms if not tightly gathered buds. Once the paint was applied, a final coat sealed the back of the button in a shade of grayish black. This is unusual because most painted AJ buttons aren't fully painted and show plenty of the original, transparent, amber-tone Bakelite. This button is a dark exception with the entire base of the button covered in paint. It's a rare view of nighttime floribunda, circa 1929.

-Sherbert McGee