Antique French equestrian buttons.

01/04/2009

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Yesterday these great French sporting buttons arrived from St. Alban, France.  The seller wrapped them in French postcards from Les Karellis, Savoie and Toulon, so I was able to have a small virtual trip as well.These buttons are all equestrian themed. These were originally parts of sets of buttons that adorned the coats of ladies or gentlemen that belonged to exclusive hunting and riding clubs. Giddy up!

 


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Cindy Lietz, Polymer Clay Tutor link
07/18/2009 14:50

Allie (I hope that is your name) these paperweight buttons are amazing! I have a bunch of old buttons from my grandmother, but I've never seen any like these before. I did try and click the link to your bracelet but it just goes to Esty's main page. Your idea for making modern jewelry from antique buttons is really great. Your pieces turn out beautiful!

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Cindy Lietz
07/18/2009 14:57

Oooops I meant to write this comment on the paperweight post. These equestrian buttons are great too, but I really loved the glass ones. My bad! :-)

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Heather Mahaffy
07/09/2010 18:08

Hi, in the picture of the equestrian buttons above I am interested in knowing more about them, when they were made and their possible value. I received one of these in a collection I recently got. Also what is the material used for the top?

Heather

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Heather Mahaffy
07/22/2010 13:37

Hi Again,

Thank you so much for the info you sent me recently on the button (back row, top left hand corner) - equestrian button. Could you please let me know what it measures.

I also am wondering if you could re send the previous info as it came into my junk file and somehow has been deleted. We are having a meeting of our group on Monday 26th and I would like to be able to read the info you sent to them. You could send it to me and also to our collected email account:
fab6buttons@gmail.com That would be great.

Thank you very much for your consideration in this matter.
Heather

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