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May, 1964 NATIONAL BUTTON BULLETIN 119

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Set-up al Base Set.up in Center (b, 1-3)
Sulphide (9) Bird's Egg (1)
Swirl ( 10) Foit (2)
Tear-drop (11) Peacock's-eye (3)
Spatter (a7) set-ups have hit-and-miss bits of contrasting color(s) on an opaque
ground.
Spiral-Pinwheel (a8) set-ups are, as the name implies, stylized patterrN in con-
trast to flourishes and off-hand swirls.
Sulnhide (ag) p.w.'s rank with pictorial canes as the ultimate in desirability. Mas-
terpieces of the glass workers art, they ale (probably for that reason) in extreme-
Iy limited supply both as to actual number or buttons and as to variety. The best
knovsn of the sulphides looks to the casual observer like a yellow cameo head in-
side a cranberry glass button. Actually it is a white cameo liead backed by a cran-
berry glass set-up and covered by a vaseline glass cap. rn old buttons the cameo
enclosure is always a classical head. color combinations, besides the one just des-
cribed, are yellow base with clear top and in ilre black glass department bLack base
with clear top. under clear glass the cameo, of courie, show.s its natural white
color.
Swirl (a10) p.w.'s include set-ups carrying loops, flourishes, arcs and other swirl-
ing motifs of no pictoriat intent.
Tear-drop (a11) p.w.'s hold tiny bubbles placed in the cap or over the set-up.
Set-up in center (7b) as already noted, refers to a set-up u,hich is like the kernel
in.a nut, covered by a cap which encloses rather than ci.owns. A long recognized
rYle for certifying- paperrveigitt construction in doubtful casos is this: transparent
glass must be visible over and or around the opaque glass presumed to be a iet-up.
unless a cap is discernible, the button is not a paperweight. rt is here that vie
need to remember the rule arrd apply it:
Bird's egg set-ups (b1) have a ball-sl-raped center of rvhite glass speckJed wiil-r
color or clear giass speckled with rvhite rpossibly other combinitionsl. The cap of
clear glass is like a thick frosting covering the set-up. The same kind of speckling
when on the very outside of a button is overla;g trim.
Foil set-ups in center rb2r make buttons decidedly different from foil at base
since so little of the button is transparent. Black giass provides the finest exam-
ples. Red, blue and amethyst glass balls tlike the black onesl \r,ith a foil deer.
bird ol butterfly at the top are the finest examples.
Peacock's-eye (b3) is the most colorful and popular var.iety of the above in clear.
and colored glass. The typical peacock's-eye set-up is made with a blue foil disk