shell – New Jersey State Button Society

**How many points could you get for this shell button?**

Novice and experienced button collectors – get tips on putting a competition tray together with a Zoom Q&A session with Annie Frazier on Sunday, February 21 at 4 p.m. Any questions are welcome but the featured topic will be how to label classifications for the more “ordinary” shell buttons, as above. Hint: Look at the back, maybe not so ordinary!

Back of the “plain” shell button shows its bark and whether it is iridescent or not iridenscent.

Annie will give tips on entering NJSBS’s first virtual shell competition, explained here.

Anyone who clicks through to this post may join the zoom meeting on 2-21 at 4 pm Eastern time https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82206862694 and to join by phone use Meeting ID: 822 0686 2694 and call 1 646 558 8656.

TO SUBMIT A QUESTION send a pictures of the button, front and back, to ButtonsinNewJersey@gmail.com

We will have them either posted or ready to show on the screen.

Questions – call me at 609-759-4804 or bfiggefox@gmail.com

For the Zoom Q&A on February 15 at 2 p.m. I will ask — why does this button have concnetric circles of different colors, yet it feels smooth, with everything on the same plane? It’s a thin button, but could thinner layers have been inserted? Sew through with etching, steels, and possible inlay?

For the Zoom Q&A on shell, I am asking — is this a shell button? What material surrounds the shell? Composition? Horn? So is it Composition with inlay pearl and inlay mirrors? (What are the shiny circles called, and what are they called when they are not shiny but black?