Books, Home & Garden, Antiques & Collectibles, Buttons

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Tom Tumbusch
Tomart's Disneyana: Guide To Pin Trading
by Tomart Publications (Paperback)

The 6th Edition of Tomart's DISNEYANA Guide to Pin Trading is the first new edition in over two years, and contains many additions and changes. But don't get rid of your Fifth or earlier editions. Many pins will not be repeated. Foreign pins and Disney Auction/Shopping pins have been eliminated to concentrate on US Disney theme parks, Disney Cruise Line, New York World of Disney and other operations. New issue pins for eliminated catagories will still be covered in Tomart's DISNEYANA Update magazine, but will not appear in our traditional guide. Values have also been revised to reflect the current market.

Peggy Ann Osborne
Button Button: Identification and Price Guide
by Schiffer Publishing (Paperback)

This well-organized guide is recommended by the Button Society as a book that every button collector and dealer should own. The standard book in the field, it gives information to identify the age, material, and desirability of any button that may be found. It covers buttons of every imaginable type, price range and age. Its convenient size make it a perfect field guide, an easy reference for forays into antique stores, flea markets, and yard sales. The price guide is newly updated to reflect the current market.

Nancy Yunker Trowbridge
Christmas Tree Pins: O Christmas Tree (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
by Schiffer Publishing (Paperback)

For many people, decorating for Christmas includes wearing jewelry with seasonal designs. The range of Christmas tree pins, shown in over 1,200 beautiful color photographs, described, identified, and valued here, will astound you. Over 1,100 different pins, from the mid-20th century to the present, made by more than 200 designers and manufacturers, are alphabetically ordered for easy reference. The identifying marks, company dates, and materials are listed for each pin. Beauty distinguishes many of the designs, and the rhinestones, enamels, and metalwork are of the finest quality. The hunt for Christmas tree pins is a year-round persuit, and this book will certainly inspire you to start your own collection.

Sally C. Luscomb
The Collector's Encyclopedia of Buttons (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
by Schiffer Publishing (Hardcover)

The bible book of buttons is back in an updated and revised sixth edition. This is the best introduction to the world of buttons that has ever been written. Over 3,000 buttons, covering all periods, materials, and manufacturers, are pictured and identified, along with newly revised current market values for each button. Although comprehensive in scope, the book is never intimidating. Its encyclopedic format enables information to be quickly and easily found. Current market values make it the best guide to the market. This is the one book that experienced collectors have long considered indispensable, that new collectors must have.

Diana Epstein, Millicent Safro
Buttons
by Harry N. Abrams (Paperback)

Haughtily beautiful or whimsically irreverent, buttons are a unique mirror of changing fashions in dress and the decorative arts through the centuries. With a foreword by acclaimed artist Jim Dine and a preface by best-selling author Tom Wolfe, both devoted buttons aficionadoes, this book appeals to the serious collector and casual enthusiast alike.

Debra J. Wisniewski
Antique & Collectible Buttons: Identification & Values [Volume II]
by Collector Books (Hardcover)

Thousands of buttons are featured in over 400 color photographs. No repeats from the first book. Complete descriptions, dates, and current values. This unique book showcases all types of materials such as glass, enamel, brass, plastic, rhinestone, wood, and shell , as well as the amazine pictorials of birds, dogs, cats, insects, people, mythology, and more. AUTHORBIO: Debra Wisniewski is the author of two volumes of Antique & Collectible Buttons. She has been involved in her family's estate auctioneering business since 1970. She has served as president and as secretary of the West Michigan Buttoneers and is a member of the National Button Society. She continues to spread the joy of button collecting at schools, historical societies, and civic groups. REVIEW: This book is the second of Debra Wisniewki's bestselling books, with no repeats from her first volume. Using the same user-friendly format as Volume I, the book includes more studio buttons, paperweights, and newly ...

Diana Epstein
The Button Book (Miniature Editions)
by Running Press Miniature Editions (Hardcover)

From a world authority on the artistry and history of buttons, here's the ultimate palm-sized compendium of button love and lore. Diana Epstein, co-founder and co-owner of New York's famous Tender Buttons boutique, shares rare examples from the private collection she shares with partner Millicent Safros. Full color throughout.

Gavin Lucas
Badge / Button / Pin
by Laurence King Publishers (Paperback)

Badges, buttons, and pins have been around for more than a century. Today they're everywhere: on lapels and bags all over the world and in the sketchbooks and on the screens of some of the hottest graphic designers, artists, and illustrators. A button can be a way to display political or cultural affiliations, or it can be a fashion accessory. A guide to the best and most beautiful buttons being produced right now be they graphic, textual, or plain illustrative this book explores the rich variety of uses of the button since the year 2000. It will appeal to graphic designers, illustrators, fashion designers, artists, music lovers, and button enthusiasts of all ages.

Peter Francis
Beads of the World: A Collector's Guide With Price Reference
by Schiffer Publishing (Paperback)

The friendly text and hundreds of color photographs of beads from around the world bring order to this awesome field of growing popular interest. This new book makes the identification of beads possible. Written to encourage collectors and clarify the origins and uses of beads in their native settings, this book provides the best and broadest reference available to date. Furthermore, newly revised pricing information makes this book useful in today's marketplace. Beads of organic, stone, and glass materials are individually discussed. Then Mr. Francis traces certain types of beads to their origins in Europe, the Middle East, India, the Far East, Southeast Asia, North and South America and Africa--literally circling the globe. Jewelry makers and collectors, artists, hobbyists and serious historians alike will find Mr. Francis's personally researched and clearly stated explanations fascinating.

James C. Casey
Badges of America's Finest: A Pictorial Guide to the Badges of American Lawmen and Price Guide
by M.T. Publishing Company, Inc. (Library Binding)

There are wonderful badges from all over America to be discovered in this book, the major cities of the east coast, and moving west to California, Hawaii and north to Alaska. From the simple tin star to the elegant solid gold presentation badge, this pictorial book presents over 500 images of badges ranging from the basic to the grandest solid gold and sterling. In many cases their hand engraving is unique, the exceptional qualities are apparent at first glance. Others are very basic and plain in design. This book s large format presents most of these badges in exquisite close-ups. Immerse yourself in the fantastic world of America s Finest police badges. Collectors, historians and the public from all over the world have been fascinated with images of early lawmen, identified not by uniform, but by the badge pinned to their chest and will find in this volume a fascinating photographic history, as well as a price and reference guide.

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