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As for buttons in sets, I don't have any dates handy but I know there were carded buttons in the late 1800's. Some would come on larger cards and the salesperson would cut the number off that the customer purchased. Or cards may have 2 dozen small buttons as a set for women's waists when many small buttons were in style.
A couple sources are:
Luscomb, S.C.
1967 The Collector's Encyclopedia of Buttons. Bonanza Books, New York.
Hughes, E, and M. Lester
1991 The Big Book of Buttons. Second Printing. New Leaf Publishers.
Susan
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The wash water idea is great. We found several hundred buttons that I think
might have been associated with the Russian bathhouse at Castle Hill.
Mostly they were shirt buttons, but there were many brass uniform buttons
also. While the gentlemen were undressing they might have lost the buttons,
but they also had their clothes washed while they were there. Hm...
About button boxes... when my mother bought a card of buttons to replace
lost ones, there were always extras. She would keep the extra new ones in a
box along with buttons she removed from rags or found in the couch seats.
When did buttons begin to be sold in sets?
Margan Grover
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