Page 44 - May1954

234 NATIONAL BUTTON BULLETIN May, 1954

IITCE-CAPPED DUTCN
.WOMEN,
dressed ln
unchanging village
style, car:d famous
Spakenburg galalith
buttons and buckles for
distribution through
BGFJ Originales to the
fashion centers of the
Lrnited States.

THD CDNTUR,IES
IIEET as wor.kmoq clad
in traditiona,l wooden
shocs and Dutch
pantaloons, tend their
gle,aming, strea,mlined
button-making, lrra.-
chines. Natives of
Spakenburg, Ilolland,
they cling to centuries-
old customs of dress
and behavior, despite
advances of rnodern
technology in their
rvork-a-day world.

BUTTON BOUNTY is
the reward of this
industrious Ilollander as
he feeds a solid sheet
of galalith into the
stamping machine, an
early step in the
conversion of sour
rnilk.and.sand into gem-
Iike BGE Originales.