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724 NATIONAL BUTTON BULLETIN May, 1964
MECHANICAL MAKE-UP (Continued)
Mirrors (4d) must be genuine looUng glass. The plainest are merely small disks
cemenLed to metal backs. Fancier ones may have beveled or faceted edge, ovoid or
angled shapes, tinted or frosted glass, etched, engraved or painted designs. In fact,
too much variety exists bo catalog it au. In our opinion, mirror buttons without
metal backs are all modern and hence not provided for in this classification.
Passementerie (4c). A button assembled by fltting glass "sets" to an openwork
metal back or border. Ruby glass simulating garnet jewelry, blue a-nd goldstone
made up in the same way offer flne examples. Some call this make-up "riveted"
since the glass is held on by metal pegs. In conirast to black glass where patterns
are numerous. colored passementerie is seldom seen.

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V MECHANICAL MAKE.UP Metal Trim (5, a, b)
\\'afer t e r Embedded (a, 1, 2)
\\'atch Cr\stel rfr Bracelets ( 1 )
Pictorial t2)
Escutcheon (b)
Paperbacks (6)
ll'afer r4er is tlle nanle l1o\\'given to buttons (exclusive of miuors) \\hich need a
metal back to give durabilit]' to a fragile sheet glass top. Sometimes the back is
held on only b1' a pin-sharrk and is not adhered to the glass at all. Usually, horv-
ever, the metal and the glass are stuck to each other in some way.
Watch crystal (4f ). Buttons having fragile glass tops resembling $atch crystals
rvhich are attached to a wide shank-plate by means of a thick layer of black ad-
hesive material. The piate may carry tlle shank or may be perforated to match
holes iD a crystal sew-thru. Decoration is accomplished in several $'ays including
Ieverse painting on the glass and inlay under the glass. Some fine pictorials are
found in tllis class with birds exceptionally well represented. For a comprehensive
sludy of \1'atch crystals see the Bulletin for September, '62, pp. 204-08 and March
'63. pp 53-55. both alticles bI' Jean Kasemeyer.