Alan Rosenzweig started collecting buttons 50 years ago when he was just 12 years old as a competition with his friend Bobby. Bobby got out to the early lead with 70 buttons to Rosenzweig’s 50, but ...

"If you come stay with me, you get to sleep with my buttons," Boldt joked as she showed a visitor the way to her guest bedroom. On one wall, from floor to ceiling, collections of buttons are attached ...

EUGENE, Ore. — A rich hoard of family history might be hidden in Mason jars and cookie tins that are full of buttons. They might include buttons from wedding gowns, uniforms or the dress a child wore ...

! We want to hear about what you collect and why. Email Cindy Hval at [email protected] or call Voices editor Kimberly Lusk at (509) 459-5457. While many of us have memories of sorting through our ...

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 ...

Button aficionados displayed their collections at Boulder’s Millennium Harvest House on Saturday afternoon — everything from domestic cats to blue glass and just about any shape and color imaginable. ...

PLEASANTON — Perhaps the nicest thing about Cathy Malkovich’s political button collection is the opportunity to examine them, appreciate their history and be reminded that every election cycle ...

FOX LAKE — The display case at the Fox Lake Public Library is now filled with buttons from collections owned by sisters Nancy Wanish of Waupun and Diane Sattler of Chilton. There is a real variety in ...

“They are mini works of art, in some cases they have been passed down and treasured by other family members,” said Michele Fox, society president, of Chandler. “There are many fascinating stories ...

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 ...

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 ...