FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The Three Rivers Festival makes a new button every year. The pin can get you discounts on some tickets around the festival, but, for some, they mean a lot more. Over the ...

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) Peggy Mathes still has the first button she ever collected a trapezoid-shaped piece made of bakelite, trimmed with a row of rhinestones. "It was in 1988," Mathes said. "I was in an ...

Most people think of buttons as items used to secure clothing, but for Lillian Irvin, they're collector's items.Irvin, also known as "The Button Lady," has been giving presentations on the history of ...

Trays of buttons bequeathed by Bertha Beam are on display at the Allen County Museum. Beam, who began collecting buttons as a 5-year-old in the 1880s, had amassed about 12,000 of them by 1948 and was ...

The button that started Carl Fisher's collection of thousands was a gift. Nearly 20 years ago, Fisher's aunt gave him a simple red button with the name "MORSE" in white lettering. It dated from 1972, ...

Syliva Whiten’s husband, Bob Whiten, has his own, small collection of buttons from his firefighter parade coat. He has served with the Charleroi Fire Department for 60 years. Sylvia Whiten keeps her ...

NORMAL — Sharon Zaychek said people get into button collecting “because they’re like little pieces of art.” The Freeport, Ohio, woman was among seven other dealers who hawked their collectible buttons ...

BLOOMINGTON — Russa Milburn once spent four hours sifting through a “poke box.” It was early in her nearly 10-year career as a collector, but the incident — at an Indiana state show — was a sure sign ...

I’ll bet at first glance of the title of this month’s column some of you are thinking about buttons and bows as in useful items for garment making and adornment. Perhaps others are thinking of the ...

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