Button Button: Identification and Price Guide

By Peggy Ann Osborne

Book Overview

This well-organized guide is recommended by the Button Society as a book that every button collector and dealer should own. The standard book in the field, it gives information to identify the age, material, and desirability of any button that may be found. It covers buttons of every imaginable type, price range and age. Its convenient size make it a perfect field guide, an easy reference for forays into antique stores, flea markets, and yard sales. The price guide is newly updated to reflect the current market.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764300822
• ISBN13: 9780764300820
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 15 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 10 and higher

Customer Reviews

Wonderful button book!

This is an excellent button book for a novice or professional button collector. The price guide is helpful even though prices have gone up, & so has the rarity of finding a bargain or your favorites, but isn't that the way with a wonderful good thing these days, we were found out!

Button, Button...

For a beginner, who knows nothing of buttons, I'm impressed with the depth of knowledge in this book. It's a must for collectors, or for those wanting to learn more about buttons.

Great reference

I bought this for my mother who started collecting buttons that she was finding at yard sales and flea markets. She absolutely loved the book. It is very complete in terms of providing information on all sorts of materials and subject matters. There are lots of examples, great pictures, so you can compare your buttons with the ones shown to get an idea ofthewir history/origins as well s some pricing info. Definitely the best book I've come across for buttons as I was looking for this gift for my mom and she's gotten great use of it. (Now I get to hear from her about "oh and this button..... and that button..." It's fun :)

Easy to use with great illustrations!

I needed to price and identify over 100 pounds of vintage buttons with very little background in the subject. This book taught me everything I need to know in a very short time. Excellent photos and examples. Highly recommended.