by bfiggefox | Jul 22, 2020 | Chronicling
Jackie Moreno is president of the Jersey Shore Button Club, and her husband, Matt, paints studio buttons and button cards. Here she tells about her “button life.” My interest in buttons began as a young child. My mother had many of my clothes made by a...
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 | 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 | Chronicling
NJSBS was delighted to accept the gift of buttons from the collection of Eleanor Savery McVay (March 18, 1909 – June 14, 1982). Her daughter, Carolyn Thelander Gittelson, was moving from her Short Hills home and contacted Gloria Chazin and Ann Wilson regarding the...
by bfiggefox | Jul 13, 2020 | Chronicling
Meet Pat Wagner, whose beautiful necklace earned second prize by popular vote in the Fall 2019 show. (We’re sorry we don’t have a good photo of Pat, but here is her necklace!) The competition was ‘right up her alley” because,...
by bfiggefox | Jul 13, 2020 | Chronicling
On November 16, 2019, NJSBS celebrated National Button Day at the Hopewell Branch of the Mercer County Library. We offered our Every Button Has a Story illustrated slide talk and hands-on experience. Four guests brought their button jars and four NJSBS members – Sara...
