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BYSON BUTTONS

PEOPLE, HEADS, FOPS
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A Group of Buttons of People in Assorted Materials:
Bakelite Asian Farmer with a number & symbol
French Couples and a woman with fishing net
Art Nouveau Woman With Wings
Man Dancing, extra-large pierced Silver
Three of the Four Seasons Women

Man in military attire Button:
- backmarked: Knopf konig graz

Figures and heads buttons:

- full Teddy Roosevelt hunting set of three; clown with lizard on wall; girl's Head in an elaborate border;
woman sculpting a bust of man; red tinted The Fall of Granada;
pierced unmarked silver drinking buddies; extra-large tinted D'Artagnan

- three buttons from Comedia del Arte: The Doctor and Pantalon, Pique au Vif, men rivals
- early composition figures in compromising positions

- extra large Alpine mountain climber; knight's head with flower border; draped woman in brass, on wood;
Victorian woman in pierced tinted brass; woman feeding birds

- woman sitting in the curve of the moon
- Summer from the Four Season's

- girl with fishing net; boy sitting in a chair; topless woman dancing

- large Katisha with wallpaper background
- Oriental Matron with fan on wood with bead border

- large detailed black glass head of woman, on horn
- large wood girl's head in profile

- woman wearing flowered hat with cool border; nubian head on large pierced square; woman with ornate headdress;
grotesque theatrical face; Ophelia drowning; two women with a sunflower

Heads & People Buttons from Many Countries:
- African Wearing a Hat Button of Pierced White Metal with Paste OME
- Jackie Coogan Button of Pierced Brass with Brass Rope Border
- Dutch Woman Washing a Crying Baby Button
- Spanish Man with Long Mustache Wearing a Stylish Hat
- Roman Man in an Elaborate Helmet
- Picasso-like Head
- Ludvik II of Hungary & Bohemia Head Button
- Fabulous Large 2-piece Metal Pirate's Head with a Knife Between His Teeth!
- George Vol Cramer AT: 680 Head Button

Two metal picture buttons:

- Woman driving an open air car
- Pot metal button of naked guy with bath towel in the reeds

Two extra large head buttons
- American Indian head in copper, on brass
- Pierced two-piece french white, with pastes: Katisha with fan, on a six-pointed star

Woman Among Flowers by Pde Bryk (signed)

Large Pax and Bellum buttons

Group of Unusual Picture Buttons:
- Kate Greenaway's "Ring-a-ring-a-roses", "Gnome Hammering A Nail Into A Horseshoe", "Ole Bull",
"Little Girl Watering The Flowers", "Indian Hunter" & three French Fops