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' NOME. esssesssnsessensosssnssnsnnssnssssesssnsssnsossrsssnsnse sertsssieesinavena Address. soc ss oeseasrssncsesssvesssscsevons Cityor Town. .ceocecesssccccnes (Available free to residents of Ontario over 21 years of age) ONTARIO TODAY Mrs, Osborne with part of her collection. Two cards of b KR almost every kind of article man has made there is a collector -- wea- pons. glass, china, coins, stamps, moustache cups. Some collections are valuable, some are beautiful, and some are junk, but dear to the heart of the owner nevertheless. In some you can read the story of man through the ages of his civilized existence. Buttons are one of these. In the United States so many people are button bugs that there is a National Button Society which has an annual show held in cities across the country. In Canada the hobby flourishes more individually as yet, but it does flourish. Mrs. Orville K. Osborne of Bowmanville (the former Beatrice Down of Oshawa) became interested four. years ago and asked through a letter in the Canadian Countryman to hear from others. Friend- ships sprang up all over, and one day a woman from Wellington, Ont. with whem she had corresponded appeared at Mrs. Osborne's door with a button expert, Mrs. William §S. Crawford of Latham, N.Y. ELL launched by these and other col- lectors, Mrs. Osborne was the insti- gator for a button collector's group of about a dozen women living in the area from Pickering to Port Hope and Camp- bellcroft. Mrs. Crawford was a visitor at the April meeting, bringing with her two suitcases full of mounted buttons, a small portion of her collection. Among the most beau- tiful of those she brought with her were the painted enamel and porcelain buttons, and the lithographs which may carry Cur- rier and Ives prints, or the bewigged heads of 19th century ladies and gentlemen. In the 16th century, buttons were lavish- SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1961 ly used on gentlemen's clothes and were an evidence of wealth and vanity. For this reason they were shunned by the Puritans and the Amish (a sect which spilt from the Menncnites), and to this day the Amish people in Pennsylvania and in Canada around Kitchener and Waterloo use hooks and eyes instead of buttons on their clothes. HEN Queen Victoria's beloved Albert died, she had buttons made for her dresses of black glass with a dull face. With collectors, black glass is one of the big and varied categories. Another kind of mourning button than Victoria's was made from coins. When someone in the family died, one side of the coin was erased of de- sign and the name and dates of the de- ceased put on. These were worn on a vest or waistcoat and could in time provide quite a family history. The value of buttons to a collector can be anywhere from a few cents to $25 or more for a single button, depending on its rarity. The average person acquires a col- lection by the swap and donation method, but connoisseurs may pay $150 or more for a button from a dealer. When grandma was a girl it was the fashion to collect buttons on a "charm string". The number must not exceed 999, to reach the 1000th button meant the owner would be an old maid. Mrs. Osborne treasures a charm string put together by Corsina Elizabeth Parsons who was born in 1862, lived on the 5th Concession of Darlington Township, and at age 19 mar- ried William Roger Cole who had a farm near Happy Valley. Apparently the young lady stopped before the 1000th button, though Mrs. Osborne hasn't counted to see.