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collection to be a Motiwala and riehtfullv on her
Motiwala card.
Also found at the California meetins were two
beautiful Kate Greenaway buttons of
gold foil inlaid in torloise shell.
These were recently acquired by
Lucille Weingarten. AJong with
her treasured tortoise shell
two.fitntastic Kate
Greenawal, bttttons buttons was an ivory inlay in
- gold foil inlaid in wood on a branch. Also pictured
tortoise shell. From the is another discovery in the Hill
collection ofLuc'ille
collection - a great pigmented
Weingarten.
ivory inlay of a herd of elephants
in wood. A third button of this type from the
collection of Barbara and Tom Barrans is also
shown.
To make things even better, Herman Bangeman
found a beautifullv pierced carved ivory elephant
with a multi-elephant border, which looks very much
Three like the work of Motiwala.
buttons showing
Motiwala's ivory
inlays in wood. The
J'irst is.from Lucille
Weingarten, the
second from the
editor's collection,
and the thirdfrom the
Barrans collection.

A beautful carved ivory
elephant button. Although we
huve not seen this pictured in
any of theflyers we have, it is
certainly in the manner of
Motiwala.