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106 NATIONAL BUTTON BI'LLETIN May, 1964

STATE BULLETIN REVIEW (CONtiNUEd)
children,s uterabure and fairy tales, exclusive of theatrical cha.racters. A bibli-
.Elrpny-*".-patti"a it a.ra-nioetden button desig3s were-pictured;- Copiqs of
ifris 'atict" are'available irom the editor , . . Anottrer article from ttre Indiana
bulletin which is also available in a reprint, was a wonderful study of Button
Soraeis. Tgenty-three cta^sses axe demo-nstrated by drawilCs repro-duced photo-
grapnicaffy. fnis is a nnJ-wort for individual or club study . . . Fifty pounds of
butto*, tire result of a commercial contest, came into the possess_ion of an In-
auna cbffecto., furnishing ttrree weeks of fun and some good finds'
KANSAS-A contributor to this bulletin, in an article, The Man in The
Moon, compared ttre moon-myths of several European countries ' .' Anotfrer
*rite. sugg'esteal that if a review were made of the early identiflcaiio_ns of boy
button O6igns, some of ttrem mieht prove to be Kate Greenaways ' ' r The Legend
of Ttre Cross was ,"*t"prtl"A 6y a page of ancient signs ,nd Though
-syqbols'
studies of cross aesigrG frave Lppebr-ea in several siate bulletins, most of
tn"r", Uf. tfris one, eribrace some difierent material . . . The cover of the Kanas
bulletin i:s one of tt e rn*i attractive of the state bulletin covers and t'he color
is varied with each issue.
MICHIGAN-TtIiS state publication is so extremely individualistic it would be
ir"p&ibltt" mention rii tli" unique features. Each of the quarterly booklets
t G a Ureme. During the last year, bne was on the Indians of the Southwest and
Mexico. Another concei"ea-gfass'Uuttons, their makers and making. A third'
number was devoted to- Motfiei Goose rhymes and English tolgts at applied .to
Uutton design. JapaneselaUies a.rA buttons oJ.bamboo, ivory, sakuma' porcelain'
ir",i"&, .roiro""e'ana ciruu.uar were discussed in the fourth number . . . All issues
;i-t=dMi;Ga" bulleiin co;Ainea ma'r'v drawings' photograqhic reproductions
a"a artistic h-and work. Enclosed in each cbpy was a souvenir or favor-a felt good-
Gct mou"ati; tinv nvinicarp on a bambbo stick: a sa'mple of glass cane embed-
ded in glass. The *"r"UE"i- oi ilie uichigan State Sociaty must eagerly watch
for ttre postrnan at bulletin time.
MlNNEsoTA.Inoctoberof1963,agroupofMinnesotastateSocietymembers
JompUeO a twenty yo'fri"tow it tire i"gariizalior. .. . . A new edltor .$s resgmed
it6-iuuu""tl6ili;-I\iir-erod suiietin,-ana is enthusiastic over her job since the
itat6 iociliy furnished n-eiftttt a tine new duplicator . . . . In her first BuUetin
inJincfuaeif four fu[-s[ed p"tteon" for mounting cards, and a p-rinted reproduc-
U"" oi" Uea"tifuf prize-winning tray, to show the eflectiveness of her designs' .-. '
-efi-ciEnt
i6spned by her n,iw a^na dduipmerrt, this editor, as a,n extr-a-eg:ricular
;Tirit],, G"*rki"c; driir; ior associate fumbers (out of state) who will reeeive the
quart#i,-U-uttiUritor annua.l dues half the amount of regu.lar members.
ilISSOITRI-A very lovely colored print graped the cover oi t'he final
nsuJ oi tt is bglletin fo" fSffi . . . att inriovation in this number, planned as a
regulal fea,ture, was a question arrd answer page . ' ' An arbicle, Designs and Pat-
t ils, p**pted the i:ea,aer to look moie closely at' a nJllb:er. of items'
;i6g-'kj;;*irfo ttre whyi-ana'lvherefores. . . Anottr& piece entitled Antiques in
Iti.riature, irEpired erLetei iesp*t for our hobby ' ' A gollg".tion of Madonna
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6uito* tira ;f il1e dnds ;he tras maae . . . Seveial pages in this pub-lication de-
-Uutt"n
voted to short items & neq/s and personalities, wexe ,99 doubt much
rrissouri-club members . . . How Not to start A Colleetion '6,as an
amusing reverse app"oact taren by a Missouri addict, in direct coltrast to the
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usuaf eicouraging;bpeoi. . i mehoriaf gift was receivd by the Missouri state
society fo,r tlre purpose of financing a sta,te button.
NEBRASKA-The story Behind The Story, by a Nebraska collector, told
--ry-""i""rifia. Uactgtou.rd fables and fgcts about' a number of familiar
;*rary iny-es. r"ese,"ro,rrrdation stories add much interest to a type of button
Aoig""ttai appeafs to atf ot us . . .A print-of Gainsborough's porbrait of the
ouciiess ot oiionstrire iiiq.strated a skefih of the artist end a description of a
bfiness oi Devonshire iittrograph button . . . Whistle buttons were the subiect
of a,notirer article. . . . fnrsf Uritton coUectors, ever alert for ideas, to make the
mosi ot them. It was interesting but not surprising, that a feature in the Nebra^s-