by bfiggefox | Jul 22, 2020 | Chronicling
JoAnn Taylor is president of the Bergen Button Club. JoAnn Taylor started collecting in 1991 after reading in her local newspaper that a button club was meeting at Teaneck Library, all welcome. “I was hooked!” JoAnn is president of the Bergen Button Club and, with...
by bfiggefox | Jul 13, 2020 | Competing, Competition winners
#2 Competition: 10 Buffed Celluloids, any size. Sponsored by Central Jersey Buttoniers, $15, 10, 5. First Prize: Lorraine Grinka. Second Prize, Chris Gudrian. Third Prize, Anonymous
by bfiggefox | Jul 13, 2020 | Competition winners
Competition #1 -12 of your favorite Celluloid Buttons, any size. Sponsored by Central Jersey Buttoniers, in memory of Lillian Buirkle, $15, 10, 5. First Prize: Lorraine Grinka. Second Prize: Theresa Heulitt. Third Prize: Anonymous
by bfiggefox | Jul 13, 2020 | Chronicling
Cynthia Bartlett is a long-time button collector who is a past president of the New Jersey State Button Society. She explains how she fell in love with buttons: “I did not inherit a collection; my entire collection is “self bought.” I kept a list – the...
by bfiggefox | Jul 13, 2020 | Collecting
Sam Kramer, born in Pittsburgh in 1913, studied jewelry design in high school and college. In 1936 he moved to Greenwich Village in New York City, the center of bohemian and artistic culture. There, he opened a workshop and gallery to sell his surrealistic jewelry...
