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108 NATIONAL BUTTON BUT,I,ETIN May, 1964
STATE BULLETIN REVIEW (Continued)
election of officers. All this data was in this way made available to every member
of the state society . . . The theme of the 1963 FaU meeting was: Pennsylvania
Has Everything. In keeping with it, competition at the show was in the following:
Historical Pennsylvania; Biography of a PeDnsylvanian; Pennsylvania Farm Life;
Pennsylvania Manufactured Products; KeysLone Patterns and Gettysbu-rg Cen-
tennial . . . Portions of this bulletin are especially planned fol' Shut-ins and the
Juniors are featured in a department called Junior Proflles.
WISCONSIN-Chapters 9, 10 and 11 of The Storv of Billie Button, completed
this factual button history told in the f,rst person by a pearl button . . . Discussions
of Czechoslovakian buttons, Pre-Wor]d War II were carried through three issues
of this bulletill . . . An article on C]ear and Colored Glass brought out the changes
that time has brought in the names by which some types are kno\\'n The
Wisconsin state project for 1963 was Glass Buttons, a different phase of the subiect
being taken up at ea.ch meeting. With January 1964 the study of Pearl Buttons
was begun . A project card is available in this society which provides thirty
named spaces for mounting buttons made in the United States . . . Among Wis-
colNin clubs cards of the month seem to be popular . . A page-size map of
Wisconsin with all the county lines, was provided in a bulletin as a mounting
project, a representative button type being suggest€d for each county . . . Articles
of interest that appeared durir-rg the year were: Josiah Wedgwood, Master Buttou
Maker; Trees of the Bible; Bone Carving and Bone Buttons; Victorian Glass.
JUNIOR, NEWS SHEET-Three articles on modern glass gave the Juniors a
guide to the modern collectible types and the names by which they are known, as
well as a classiflca'lion to follow . Another contribution was on the origin of
buttons . . . Repeated from an earlier Sheet were suggestions for a popular Junior
activity-making pictures with buttons . If one wonders what the future $'ill
bring to the button collecting hobby, the realization that the Junior society has
one-hundred and sixteen peppy members, is reassuring.
NINA HULL MILLER

A 'IGVV'' LINKED STATES BtrRDER BUTTtrN HUB
ALPHAEUS H. ALBERT

During the tast several years, hundreds of obsolete hubs and dies have been
scrapped by die-sirfting firms and button manufacturers. These tools \\:ere used in
striking medals, tokens and buttons. Many collectors have acquired specimens of