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Hi all,
We've been emptying out my parents home before selling it and man...going through 70 years of knick knacks, doodads, furniture, books...geeesh... I look around <i><b>my</b></i> house and wonder.."Who the heck wants any of my stuff when I'm gone? And why on earth am I keeping a lot of this crap!" <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
Well to stay on topic, I was going through a coffee can of old buttons and sewing stuff and came across this plastic baggie full of buttons. Now I know my mom and pop weren't relic hunters so I can only assume they came off old coats. The pic below of the pea jacket is the same type I wore in high school back in the 1960's. I knew I'd seen buttons from that coat posted on here and thought I would post the ones I found in the can. The eagle and anchor buttons were both on the same jacket if I remember correctly. I would loose most of them playing football and my mother would finally replace the whole set. The other buttons came from other coats and jackets [probably my fathers]so I'm sure they are pretty recent also. No earlier than the 1960's. I have several versions of the 'SPEZ NOSTRA ES DEV' variety that I've found and have seen posted on here before also.
So my take on it is that these are recent reproductions and we should be careful that unless they have a backmark [which none of these do] then we may have found recent coat buttons. Especially if located in a park setting or schoolyard.
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The bottom 3 dark anchor buttons are plastic and I only included em cause they were cool looking.
Not trying to burst anyones bubble, but thought it may help on some of those buttons that we can't ID.
HH and hope you have better luck than finding em in a baggie in a coffee can.... <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt="
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Tom
We've been emptying out my parents home before selling it and man...going through 70 years of knick knacks, doodads, furniture, books...geeesh... I look around <i><b>my</b></i> house and wonder.."Who the heck wants any of my stuff when I'm gone? And why on earth am I keeping a lot of this crap!" <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
Well to stay on topic, I was going through a coffee can of old buttons and sewing stuff and came across this plastic baggie full of buttons. Now I know my mom and pop weren't relic hunters so I can only assume they came off old coats. The pic below of the pea jacket is the same type I wore in high school back in the 1960's. I knew I'd seen buttons from that coat posted on here and thought I would post the ones I found in the can. The eagle and anchor buttons were both on the same jacket if I remember correctly. I would loose most of them playing football and my mother would finally replace the whole set. The other buttons came from other coats and jackets [probably my fathers]so I'm sure they are pretty recent also. No earlier than the 1960's. I have several versions of the 'SPEZ NOSTRA ES DEV' variety that I've found and have seen posted on here before also.
So my take on it is that these are recent reproductions and we should be careful that unless they have a backmark [which none of these do] then we may have found recent coat buttons. Especially if located in a park setting or schoolyard.
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<img src="http://home.cogeco.ca/~tempest135/finds/1/blazerbuttons1.jpg">
<br>
<img src="http://home.cogeco.ca/~tempest135/finds/1/blazerbuttons2.jpg">
<br>
</center>
The bottom 3 dark anchor buttons are plastic and I only included em cause they were cool looking.
Not trying to burst anyones bubble, but thought it may help on some of those buttons that we can't ID.
HH and hope you have better luck than finding em in a baggie in a coffee can.... <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt="
">Tom