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202 NATIONAL BUTTON BULLETiN July. 1955

STATf,,' IILTT'ION BLr.r,5'911;5 (Coltinued)

The Betsy Ross club of PI)NNSYLVANIA devoted a year to the study of
waistcoat buttons and came up with a full classification for jeweled and
textile-covered waistcoat buttons, including baclis and shanks. such selious
study is a real contribution to the hobby.

The third section of NEW YORK'S list of two huudred tifles of AEsop's
Fables appear"ed in the April number of their bulletin. An OHIO collector
found an unexpected source r:f material on AEsop in an old travel-guide
book. A study of other authors of fables and fairy tales has been made by
a PENNSYLVANIA collector who found buttons to illustrate a number of
them. NEBRASKA's spling bulletin carries an article on the symbolism of
coln and the.part corr played in the history of our country.
Modern glass buttons were the subject of discussion in some of the
spring bulletins. MINNESoTA's for March tells of the revival of glass blt-
ton making in England, started by a r.efugee from Czechoslovakia, and of the
lai'ge-scale making of glass buttons by Czech workers in Bavaria. An in-
formative article in the same bulletin describes modern satsuma. The
ILLINOIS Button Roundup contains an excellent piece on the place modern
buttons have in a collection.
Related collecting comes in for attention in recent state bulletins. A
WISCONSIN collector discussed buttons and stamps. A P'ENNSYLVANIA
member has listed twenty historic facts about Philadelphia which can l:e
illustrated with buttons. with a rich source of historic fact as a basis, this
bulletin contains many anecdotes concerning, or related to, button3, and
steaking of history, the JUNIOR NEWS SHEET carries the stor.y of the
cleat seal of the united states, v/hich the Juniors have found leprod.rced
on buttons. A good sprinkling of button anecdotes lightens up the more
selious pages of the state bulletins. oHIo's story of the thrill-of-a-lifetime
buying of a twelve foot Charmstring in a box of scraps for a dollar and a
half, sets us all to dreaming.

The MICHTGAN bulletin fol March presented an innovation in illustra-
tions. Buttons to illustlate the four articles in the bulletin were assembled
on one page and printed in blue. one of the articles in this issue explains
the divisions the writer has made of her steel and steel-trirnmecl buttons.

Judging from the r.eports in the state publications, the all-day work
meeting or workshop is becoming popular. one INDIANA club holds an all-
day workshop monthly. contests are frequent in state clubs. TLLINOIS
pl'esents ten clues to a "mystery collector" and the winner leceives a button
flom the subject of the contest. rllinois allows one year's dues to anyone
who secures thlee new membeis for the state society.
A number of the state organizations have indexed their 19b4 issues. A
Pennsylvania club has indexed their state bultetins completely florn the yeal
1948 thru 1954. As the flles of button literatule glow apace, these tine
savets are welcome.
NINA HULL MILLER

Plan to attend the Seventeenth Annual Meeting helct by the National
Button Socieiy in Cctob:-r 3-C lnc , at Adeiphia Hotel, philadelphia.