Originally Posted by Aurora
I have always loved the older buttons. Today we mostly have plastic buttons -- wild colors and novelty shapes -- but not the same variety and creative influence of the old buttons.
When I started buying old buttons tins/boxes, I could pick them up at auction for a couple of bucks. The last time I bid on a box it went for over $125.00.
There are lots of possibilities for using them, but I do sew them back on clothing.
The best place to go is estate auctions as most of the time the buttons get tossed in just to get rid of them.