Page 60 - January1948

58 NATIONAL BUTTON BULLETIN
I have been putting such red bone buttons aside for many years but to date
do not have eno^ugh f6r a tray. I have rrever found bone buttons dyed blue'
and am wondering if any collectors have located such.
It was very noticeable holv small the Glnsr Sectlons (A & B) were. I did
-Wo
not feel that they llere at all representative of a National Show. need
groups of collectors, specializing iri inqividual colors, to-send in their trays-in
Srtlei to have some'r6al conrpe-iition here. Let's see rvhat can be done with
[neie Sections in the Fall. \te hav. so rrany attractive glass buttons and it
aoei seum too bad not to send them to be enjol'ed at a Nationtrl Show
In listing: the prize winners, rve rcalize when slrecinliz.ed.trtr:rs are. not listed
inalividuauy -as to- the name alid t]'pe of buttons,_ that_ it_ is difficult to knos'
-
eiiclv thd kind of buttons shorvn. 1rr-e understand methods are being discussed
$,hereby this rvill be remedied if possible in the future. A numbel of lette|s
frai.e come to the office asking for a more complete listing than we have had in
sonre of the past ]'eitrs. Those of you n'ho have u'ritten the editor to nnd out
irhich classe6 harie not had IeDresentatioll at the Sho\Y, \re suggest that ]'ou
contact turs. D,orothy \Valldron, 1he chai|rnan of Classification, rvhose job it s'ls
iios;ill"r's-itn her lielpers), to looh over the clilssifications of all buttons cnt('r'ed
iti-?tt.--snot". Il'irt'ct':rll iiuestions fc€iarding the Drize list, classificatiolr, and
judgins to llrs. Wzrld|orl, Itr. lt. A. Crow and trIr. }I. \v. Carlson.
Therc are rtlwal's soDte tra)'s rvhich I never clo gct to see, n-o nlatter how
har.d I tfy. lntcrr.uDtions come to everJ-one of us and I have had nlitn!'lctters
since f arir hotle fron the Shorv, from collectors u'ho rvlsh evcn as I do, for :t
,louple of hout.s with no interl'uptions in .order to go through the e.xhibit and
reafly Sce rvhat $-its there. I suppose it is- tire. way-.InOst _ot us f eel f oI th€rIe
is so ltluch to see and do and sot.nehow the time just flies and we ale on oLlr wil]'
horne befofe \\'e linow it.
A'he ipirit of ttre Shorr rvas rnarvelous. Everyone \\'as lo helDful' coollct-
rrtive, and^ frrll of enthusiasrl that it was truly a -joy- to be there alrd to s-pend
those days togethcr'. I wnnt to thank each one who- helped-to-set u-I) the Show
Cases ancl to r:ernove and pirck the many prcciuus objects exhibited there. I'iltt-]'
piii'iistr did a great amouirt of the lvorili in settilg uD and X'fary Carman1i took
over the packing end of this project.
'fhe Sho\r'Cases contajlled separate exhibitions lonned by the fo'llowing
collectors ntrs. Reba G. Smith, llrs. Edith Dal'bl', lIrs. Jirne A. Adanrs, lIrs.
ilorune !'rancis, lIrs. Dorothy Llol'd, \1rs. Vera DugBan, l\frs. 11elen Schuler,
'we
iiis. Nette P. Van Buskirl< anil llrs- Hanna S. Kohn. want to thank each of
these persons for lending their tl, asures lnd \\'e assure J'ou that- this Datt of the
exhiliit was always fille(l \\.ith adrnirers \\'ho felt as we did that this errtire educfl-
tional aection rvas one of the high sp()ts of the erhlbitlorr.
One of the high lights in the Dducfttional sectiol was the Yefy plain holne-
spun linen Sample Book of Wood ttnd Ilone Bat'ks of the 18th century which we
picturetl in our- Septelnber 1947 magazine. After the Forum meeting, whe.e it
was clisplayed to a most appreciltive audience, the Bool< was placed on a top
shelf lr| tlie Shou'-Case ancl P:rtty Patrish put separators between the prges
so all coulal enjoy the choice contents. It 1\'as a real privilcg:e-to have it on
displar-. The C-ooper Ijnion trIuselln hrts the otrll- other Salnple Case (in folder
style) which has been reDorted to date.
For the Forum, your editor tetnovt-d (l)r- previous arrangement and per-
mission) some of the treasttt t's florrr the S;lo\v Clsts, for the participants ol) the
Forum prograrn to use in th'rir titllis, and exhibit nlore intimatell' during- the
Droqrani. exulailing the ulusu2rl Doints that lnight othertvise have not 5een
'Aft'elrvalds
ioticed. [Irs. Dat'bi, and Mrs. Francis, both of California, nrelltionecl
that if thes- harl hear.d only that prograrn thei'rvould haYe cousidered it $'ot'th
crossing: the Continent to attend.
One r.ery worthwhile (.onrrnent lvolth rt Drettrbering and putting into Drtctice
was, to have snch iL Drogrnm Dresented on-one of the first dal's-at the Sho\\: s()
such exhibits coulcl bi studied and notes taken fof the Club nlenlbe|s back homt'.
\[-hen shorving the cont{'nts ()f the Sho$'Cases to }Irs. IIelen \v('gen(rl llud
Ilrs. Gene O'Rrit n on their a1'riYal, f,ll's. O'Brien's remaIk \\'as, 'One canllot sa)'
itre-i tave realll srcn buttons till they see such ls these unustt:tl orres exhilriterl
in the Casos."
I \\'ant to thank also each person tvho brought or slrllt the treasures $'t't'x-
hiliitecl in the Show'Cases. To exhibit such indiYidttal Dieces has fol sonlc Jt!:ll's
norv, been a feature at our National Sho\\', and this time we hit(l many new iteins
frjorn both the VanBuskirk and Kohn collections. At Dacking Lrp time, dealers
and collectors left whatever the]. wer'.r doing to gather found the cnses and
examine individually the nany unusual buttons exhibited heIe. Tirne aftel
time one heard expiessions as, "I woulcl nevrjl'hllve belieYed such thinEis exist
in the button field, hacl I not seen them."
I found tluite a nurnber of unusual itctrs otr vrtriotts tral's throughout the
Show exhibit, antl am contacting: those persons so that their specimens may
annear in the BULLETIN in the dal's to conle. Whenevel' any of you Jind
uiiiiuat items do report them. Insure well and lnail to the editor for examina-
iion ina stualy, an.1 they rvill be returned rvell packetl and insured, however,