I’m Ellen Khachadourian. I’m a Clifton Park resident, a mother of four, part-time transcriptionist and a have been married for 24 years. I’m also a collector of antique buttons. How did you become ...

Explore the Fascinating World of Button Collecting. Curiosity may begin the journey, but the stories behind the buttons ...

Horse jewelry. That's what you're looking at in the photograph at right. These lovely glass buttons were decorative ornaments for bridles in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Many of them have ...

If you have a few of grandmother's buttons, or find some vintage buttons in an antique store, you can transform an ordinary shadowbox frame into an interesting work of art in less than an hour.

So all the votes have now been counted and the political campaign season is finally over (except maybe for a few lawsuits). The hats, the banners, the signs: all gone. However, the few bits of ...

Chelsey Clark's children call her "The Tinker Fairy" because she finds lost things -- buttons mostly. But Clark's buttons aren't off just any old shirt. Mostly they are little works of art gleaned ...

The buttons come in a dizzying array of colors, sizes and materials -- from porcelain and mother-of-pearl to celluloid, stenciled tin and Bakelite. The "flapper girls" are china buttons made in ...

Exhibit: The button exhibit can be viewed through March at the Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave., Coeur d’Alene. Club: The Historical Button Club meets at noon the second Wednesday of ...

Katie Paaso, a longtime quilter who lives on Oregon’s northern coast, inherited a vintage button collection from her aunt 25 years ago. The various fasteners, some antique glass, celluloid or brass, ...

A pair of extremely rare antique buttons bought for £40 fetched a staggering £61,000 at an auction. Gary Quittenton-Shaw, 58, snapped up the buttons which were included in a bunch of items he bought ...