BYSON BUTTONS




VEGETABLE IVORY



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Vegetable Ivory
Pictoral

Prices in $ next to each button.
One-of-a-kind.
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These buttons are made from the South American tagua or corozo palm nut,
carved, tinted and patterned to look like ivory.
They are hand painted transfer pictoral designs.
Late 19th - early 20th century.
Similar to buttons in the BBB - p.248.

Mearuring 13/16" to 1 1/8" diameters.




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