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BYSON BUTTONS

PEOPLE, HEADS, FOPS
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Buttons of Pretty ladies:
- including Art Nouveau winged, mermaid, french white Flore,
five lithos with paste border, Asian woman with enamel fan

Tintype buttons of real people!
- girls, boys, men & women

Gilded Napoleon button

Large metal heads with cut steel trim Buttons

Extra-large pierced white metal Asian field worker in a barn & pagoda scene

People buttons:
- Saint George and the dragon; steel cup fop with cut steel trim; silver Romeo and Juliet;
London Flower Seller; Teddy Roosevelt shooting a lion and more

Joan of Arc Buttons

Two nice greenman buttons:
- Battersea pewter with head shank; signed Shirley watch crystal

Two Buttons of Women Wearing Headdresses:
- woodback with brass wheel design
- Saint Marie-Bernard "Bernadette, signed: A eprŽs (?) F. M. Bernard P. L. Peyranne

Third Avenue fairy lady button
Unusual small picture button: juggler

Joan of Arc buttons

Interesting hats and headdresses:
- including French provincial costumes, and DeSoto in his helmet

White Metal Huguenin Picture Stories buttons

Asian Man Carrying Tote Baskets, white metal
Gypsy Lady, gilded silver

NBS large galena background: Egyptian Head

Man with a Sword Riding a Horse
- silverplate over copper

Three Head buttons:
- Medium composition, layered colors, with cameo head
- Old black plastic with green glass inset: impressed/carved cameo
- Square litho Woman's Head in a prong set paste setting

Devil Head buttons
- pierced white metal and yellow metal with twisted border

Group of People Buttons Representing Different Countries:
- Asian woman holding a Fan looking at a Bird, tinted & stamped white metal (silver ?), NBS medium size
- Tintype portrait of a mother & daughter, NBS small size
- Man in a Turban, carved & tinted bone, NBS large size
- Eskimo, Admiral Peary's North Pole, commemorative, white metal on brass, NBS large size
- Italian Canio (?) Pierrot clown, 2-piece brass, NBS large size

Punchinello Clown
extra-large Burwood escutcheon on plastic button

Four Buttons Depicting People & Mercury:
- Mercury, extra-large stamped brass button
- Men with swords scene, "A. Vom Melchi, V. Landenberg, 1307", white metal, signed "Huguenin", c. 1950's
- Man with Crossbow & Child, white metal, signed "Huguenin", c. 1950's
- Man hammering near rooster & chickens, white metal, signed "Huguenin", c. 1950's