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Abbreviations used:

     BL. Button Lines followed by   issue/page  BMLib. Birmingham Library  Catalogue numbers.  Blib British Library 

  BCBY   Button Collectors Booklist @  http://www.geocites.com/Area51/Realm/Goldenbooks2.html  

JB  Just  buttons              KSKS  Katalog @ http://www.knopfsammler.de  

  MHSB. Military Historical Society Bulletin.    MS.      Manuscript  

   NB.      Buttons not included.     NBB.    National Button Bulletin     ND.      Not dated    NT.       Not titled

Sc:  Source

A Button Collectors Journal.   Lillian Smith Albert  1941 

A Button Collectors Second Journal.  L. Smith Albert  1941

A Century of Campaign Buttons  1789-1889  J. Doyle Dewitt  1959

A Classification of Pearl & Shell Buttons   Margaret F Kelso National Button Society  1995    [Sc.  BCBY says 1971]

A Collectors Guide to French Military  Buttons  of the American Revolution 1775-1783   Marian L. Hurley  c1998  73pp ill.

A Complete Classification of Clear & Colored  Glass  Buttons   Jane Ford Adams     NBS   1964 

A Reference Book on Studio Button Makers  Jane S. Leslie  1997

About Buttons:  A Collectors Guide, 150 AD to the Present    Peggy Ann Osborne 

All About  Buttons  1762-1980  Jane Ford Adams   USA     

American Military Button Makers & Dealers; Their Backmarks &  Dates  William F. McGuinn  

American Military Button Makers & Dealers; Their Backmarks &  Dates  W.F.McGuinn  B.S.Bazelon. Revised Edition  

Expanded Edition  1988;

Antique Buttons Their History & How To Collect Them   Primrose Peacock

Antique & Collectible Buttons, Identification & Values   Debra J. Wisniewski  

Antique & Collectible Buttons, Identification & Values   Vol II  Debra J. Wisniewski  & Charles Lynch? ISBN  1574322427

Backmark Codes for Transportation Buttons

Baubles, Buttons & Beads the Heritage of Bohemia   Sibylle Jargstorf 

Beads, Buttons & Bows   Jo Moody    Book sales

Beautiful Button Jewelry   Susan Davis  1946  Sterling 

Black Glass Buttons. Nora Owen Jones & Edith M. Fuoss  Ypsilantii Uni.Lithoprinters     1945 

Black Glass Buttons combined with Return Engagement of Black Glass Buttons       Reproduced

Botan No Hon (buttons Book)  1999    Sc.abe

Bottoni      Bina Pagano   

Buttoni, Bottoni & Bottoni.     Vittoria Buzzaccarini   

Bottoni Militari Italiani  Carlo Sabatini & Eraldo Antonini   

Botones: Guia Del Coleccionista Para Seleccionar, Retaurary Disfrutar de Los Botones Nuevos

Botones Espanoles de Uniforme   

British Buttons  Civilian Uniform Buttons,  19th & 20th Century    Denis G. Blair    Greenlight       2001  

Buttons Beyond the Glass Curtain   Kathryn P. Hoppe

The Buton Maker      sarah beama    ISBN 1843402777   Collins & Brown  2006   SC:    www. ogosh buttons

Button Button  Identification & Price Guide  Peggy  A. Osborne

Button Button Carnival Glass Irridescent Black Amethyst & Lustre book 1  

Button Classics  L. Erwina Couse & Marguerite M. Maple  249pp  108 plates

Button Collecting.  Polly De Steigeuer Crummet 

Button Collecting A How To Book For New Collectors.  Berny Umland  1997

Button Guide Book No.1 Their Manufacture Use on Costumes & Collectible Types   Polly de Steigeuer Crummet

Button Guide Book No.2  A Price Guide  Mainly for  Buttons  Described in Other Books & Collectible Types 

Button Hand Book 

Button Heritage.  Erwina Chamberlin & Minerva Miner.

Button-Making Trade  Eire Dept. of Industry & Commerce Dublin SO. 1946 7pp  LibC. 48014542

Button Mounts Edith A. Rodway  & Nancy M. Odams  

Button Museum    Osumi Hiroshi, ed.  Japanese book:  247 pp.   2002

Button Parade.  Dorothy Foster Brown

Button Parade.  The New Enlarged & Revised    

Button Value List     S. E. Leonardson                  1944?

Buttons      Alan & Gillian Meredith 

Buttons .   Thames & Hudson   

Buttons ,  A Brief History   John G  Sprong    1971

Buttons : A Collectors Guide.  V.Houart.   Souvenier Press, 

Buttons , A Guide For Collectors. Gwen Squire.   Frederick Muller Ltd.    ISBN 0584:100353   1972 

Buttons : Art in Miniature  S.O.Schiff.  b/w  76pp  1979

Buttons Beads Ribbons & Lace  Carol Endler Sterbenz   1993  KSKS

Buttons –Collectors’ Blue Books  Diana Epstein.

Buttons for the Collector.  P.Peacock.    David  Charles.    ISBN 071535261X    1972    

Buttons in the Collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum       Smithsonian 1988

Buttons Made in Michigan    Edtd. The Kalsego Button Club 20pp

Button Materials A-Z: Identification Guide.   Jocelyn Howell  160pp available From author @ http://mysite.verizon.net/buttonjoss  $55 +pp

Buttons of the British Army 1855-1970      Howard Ripley. Arms & Armour  1971 1979, 1983   ISBN 085368569X (from my 83 Ed.) Comments: Uniform, well illustrated photo’s errors in first edition corrected1979 on.   My 1st edition doesn't appear to have an ISBN   (  falling to pieces is title page missing?)    SC BCBY   gives ISBN 0853680833 

Buttons of the Canadian Militia, Army, Naval & Air Forces, 1900-1990  including the Canadian Expeditionary force & Newfoundland  Eric Smylie       

Buttons of the Confederacy    A.H.Albert  Boyertown  1963

Buttons  of the Defence Forces in Australia.  J.K.Cossum  ISBN 0 7316 3083 1    1988

Buttons  of the Indian Army

Vol I  cavalry     ISBN 0854200940

Vol II  bengal army infantry   ISBN 0854201599

Vol III Punjab Frontier force madras infantry hyderabad infantry    ISBN 0854201564

Vol IV  Bombay Army Infantry Gurkha infantry ISBN 0854201661

Vol V  Arms & Services ISBN 0854201769

Vol VI  Comprehensive Index 1-5 & Battle Honours 1922 amalgamations  ISBN 1135222800

Vol VII    ISBN 0854201912                                                                           -Col N.W.Poulsonm  

Buttons  of the Irish Militia 1793-1881    J. McDonnell           1991

Buttons  of the Regular Army 1855-2000          Howard Ripley  

Buttons, the collectors guide to selecting, restoring & enjoying new & vintage Buttons  1993 Nancy Fink & Maryalice Ditzler ISBN 3850764409  Apple Press  ISBN 1561382159 running press

Buttony - The Dorset Heritage.

Boutons        Theresa Gandouet Editions de L Amateur  199pp ill ISBN 2859170359    1984

Boutons   400pp ill col ISBN 202490919          2001

Calico Buttons     Wilfred B Morgan  1938 &1940         Available: ? BCBY

Carnival of Irridescent Luster Buttons    A. Ruth Miller Clark   1986     BCBY

Carnival of Irridescent Luster Buttons Book II Ruth Miller Clark  1986   BCBY  

Carnival of Irridescent Luster Buttons  Book III    Alan G Perry  1997      BCBY.

Centre Forezien d’Ethnologie –Etudes et Documents No. 9 La famille Alcock – 200 ans d’histoire en Roannais  Joseph Alcock et Robert Bouiller   Pougnard  1985 Comments: 53 pages ill. 12 portraits &  2 plates showing manufacturers appears to combine three papers: La Motte,la Seigneurie et le Chateau J Alcock  1899;  Notice sur la branche francaise de la famille Alcock     J Alcock  1953; La fabrique de boutons Alcock a Roanne, au XVIIIe siecle       Robert Boullier 

Civil War Collector’s Guide to Alberts’ Button Book      Daniel J. Binder    ISBN 0887406912   1993                       

Classification of Black Glass  Buttons   Should this be a complete…?

Classifying & Judging Buttons   Hawley Crow   1944

Confederate & Union Buttons  of the Gulf Coast 1861-1865     Dan Jenkins  1983

Courage Coll Buttons  Nancy Fink & Maryalice Ditzler  ISBN 1561382159   Comments:  this miss-entry was found on a book search and is included as a warning - don't forget I may have made mistakes too - do tell...

Dating Buttons: a Chronology of Button Types, Makers, Retailers & Their Backmarks    Warren K Tice 1st ltd edition 500 copies   2003    

Dawne Guziki Polskie 1807-1899   Wal Baginski  W.L.Anczyca i  Spolka  1899     Sc. KSKS

Der Knopfe-Fruhe Scheibenknopfe aus Metall 14-17 jh    Werner Schonweib   Stadt Barnau   1987   Sc. KSKS    my trans: Early Disc Buttons out of metal 14th-17th Centuries

Die Deutsche Knopfindustrie in Geschichte Volkswirtschaft und Weltwirtschaft   Dr Hans Schramm 1921   Sc:  KSKS  The German Button Industry its local & international economy

Discovering Old Buttons    P.Peacock    ISBN 0 85 263 4455. Shire      1978  reprinted:  1981; 1984

From Nut to Buttons – A Closer Look at Vegetable ivory Pat & David Fields  2001     Sc. BCBY

Fire Insurance Company Buttons   Fergus Bain & Brian Wright    

Fleight in alle Lander und empfehlt uns!   Trox Eckhard   ISBN 3929614209  1996     Sc: KSKS

Fun Buttons: with price guide  Peggy Ann Osborne  143pp ill   ISBN 0887406912  1994 

Geknopfte Heraldik Eine Einfuhrung in die Welt der Gilderknopfe.   ISBN 3 929614 22 7     Walter Hostert

George Washington Inaugural Buttons  & Medalets, 1789-1793.   J. Harold Cobb; Hamden CT Comments:  Sc. BCBY free updated version is downloadable from http://moscow2.pld.com/kirk/CobbGW/GWIBM.pdf

Goofies Book I    E. Packard   1951

Goofies Book II   E. Packard   1953

Goofies Book III  E. Packard   1957

Grace Wegner Sales Catalogue   Grace Wegener  (studio button maker)   67b/w plates 1943    

Guidelines for Collecting China Buttons : Essential Data concerning China   Buttons, Ruth Lamb, Beatrice & Lester Lorah, Helen W. Schuler, Lillian Smith Albert & Jane Ford Adams. National Button Society, Boyertown    1970

Guides to Button Prices & Detecting Fake or Repro Buttons         Warren Tice                      2000

Guziki –Polskie guziki wojskowe od XVI do konca XX wieku Wojciech Boczkowsk   Michael Jaronszynski-WolframKrzasztof Gladki

Przewodnik dla Kolekcjonerow  ISBN 899124850    Sc  www.knopfsammler.de  See also …(Przewodnik dla Kolekcjonerow), Warszawa   ISBN 899 1999  Wydawnictwo Wolf   e-mail MiB@wolf.pl BCBY  

Horstmann’s, the Enterprise of Military Equipage   Bruce S. Bazelon   ISBN 1888578041  1997

Hunting Buttons in Vermont    Minnie Staples Davis

I Bottoni  nell’arte e nella storia  Pietro Coccoluto Ferrigni  Yorick figlio di Yorick    

Identifying Buttons  Alan & Gillian  Meredith & Michael J. Cuddeford;  44pp ill some col. ISBN 1900571021 

Impressions of a series of animals birds etc. illustrative of British Field Sports from a set of silver buttons drawn by Abraham Cooper…& engraved by J. Scott   Thomas Godsen    London       1821

Introduction to Button Collecting    

Knopf Design    Knopf Design    Annette WilzbachDeutcher Fachverlag   1990    Nothing further known found on a search of the V&A online catalogue. 

Knopfe Sammeln ist der Clou   Klaus Buhm  Eigenverlag Schnelldruckerei   1992    Sc: KSKS

L’industria del bottone nella storia; moda e costume a Piacenza      Serafino Maggi      Camera di Commercio, Industria, Artigianato e Agricoltura     1971   Nothing further known found on a search of the V&A online catalogue.

La Capilla Del Rosario Y Los Botones Del Periodo Republicano     Elpidio Ortega 

Comments:  http://ets.freetranslation.com  gave me:

La Gendarmerie  Besson & Rosiere  

Le Bouton de L Armee Francaise

Maurice Bottet  Paris        

Le Bouton Uniform Francaise.  Louis Fallou.   1915 

Editions du Canonnier

Lehrbuch fur die gesamte knopfeindustrieG.A. Leithauser  1934     ScTextbook for the whole button industry

Le Livre des Collectionneurs  Alphonse Maze-Censier           1885www.livre-rare-book.commentions:` les boutons d,habit les boites a mouches’ Which could be translated, If your French is as bad as, mine as: Dress buttons  found in domestic tins’   http://ets.freetranslation.com gave me: `The dress buttons the can to wipe’

Livery Buttons , The Pitt Collection.    

Little Buttons Ethel B Cassidy          Wellington print      43pp     1943

Local Militia Buttons  

Los Botones de perforacion V en la Peninsula Iberica y las Baleares durante la Edad de los Metales   Alexandra Uscatescu

Ludenscheid Und De Knopfe  Dr. Walter Hostert    Ludenschied & the Button (A little culture story of the button)

Mao Zedong Xiang Zhang Shou Cang Tu Jian   1993  

Marked Spanish Colonial Military Buttons of the Gulf Coast, Circa 1793-1821         John T Powell  Sc:  BCBY

Mathew Boulton   H.W.Dickinson 

Metal Buttons  c900BC –cAD1700 Brian Reed   ISBN 0953245047       Portcullis   2005 

Military & Other Buttons from the Berry Head Forts Brixham Devon 1794-1817.   Phillip Armitage 

Military Button Manufacturers  

Military Buttons of the American Revolution   Don Troiani 

Military Buttons of the Gulf Coast 1711-1830    Dan Jenkins   1973      Sc. BCBY

Moonglows, Past & Present 1930s-2001  Kathy Hoppe  2001    Sc. BCBY

National Button Society Section 9A Synthetic Polymers Handbook   Jocelyn Howells Joan MacFarlane & Nikki Deal

North Carolina Civil War Buttons    C Terry Teff   1998   Sc. BCBY combined with   www.knopfsammler.de

Old Buttons & Their Values    Lorraine Olson     Lightner        1940

Painted Porcelain Jewelry &  Buttons  Identification  & Value Guide Dorothy Kamm 

Photographic Reproductions of Antique Buttons   Helen Wegener  Comments:      1941-1945    Sc: BCBY     

Pictorial Overall Buttons   Jane Ford Adams & Lillian Smith Albert  NBS    1965

Picture Buttons of the Past    Evelyn Swenson  

Plastic Buttons & How to Identify Them Using All Six Senses   Jocelyn Howells   2001

Police Forces of Great Britain & Ireland-Their Amalgamations & their Buttons     Howard Ripley 

Police Buttons   Hazell & Co.Howard Ripley & Denis Darmanin    ISBN 0952793814     2000

Political campaign & commemorative buttons    Alphaeus  Homer Albert     

Polskie Guziki Wojskowe 1914-45    Krzysztof Gladki    1983   Ze zbiorow Krzysztofa Gladkiego

Polskie Guziki Wojskowe  w XX wieku    Zbigniew Zajchowski Krzysztof Gladki   Wojciech Boczkowski   1988   Sc    www.knopfsammler.de

Price Guide to Button Parade   Gertrude D. Adkins   Wallace Homestead book Co   1970

Price Guide to Uniform Buttons of the United States

Prices in the Button Industry     John Curran     Washington Gov. Ptng. Office  1919 Comments: 22pp ill  tables & diag.   

Railway Buttons, Badges & Uniforms.  D.J.Froggatt.  ISBN 0 7110 1649 6    Ian Allen  1986 Available: This book became hard to find almost as soon as it was published 

Railway Buttons, Badges & Uniforms    Supplement  1     D.J.Froggatt   1989   Available: was from author who was a member of BBS.   : fills in some of the gaps of 1st. publication. poor quality (p/copy.) reproduction of good line drawings but still another must have if you know about it.

Record of American Uniform & Historical Buttons  1775-1968        Alphaeus Homer  Albert   Boyertown   448 pp ill.  1969  Bicentennial Edition    O’Donnell Publishing    ISBN 0961358173                 1977    (another source gives c1997)

Comments in addition to above referred dates1973 1976. 1000’s identified by Photo’s &c.backmarks construction it has it all  frequently  quoted number referencing. Must have!  Additional LibC. Gives Add. Date 1976

With Supplement   1775-1973   Boyertown   1973    

Return Engagement of Black Glass Buttons    Caroline Smith   1952

Rifle Volunteer Buttons 1859-1908    Howard Ripley & Denis Damanin     MHS ISBN 095106031    1996

Scandinavian Army Buttons      A. Eklof  & B Wahrenberg.www.knopfsammler.de  

Sotto il segno dei bottoni           Michela Manservisi   Nuova Libra   Bologna   1993   No idea what this is; I found it whilst going through the V&A online catalogue freetranslation gave me:  Under the mark of the Buttons.    There is no classification as to fiction/non fiction or other details.

Supplement to The American Historical Buttons     David.Johnson      

 Swedish Military Buttons     R. Johansson, P? D?     Comments: illustrated. Swedish text.  [Ref?]

The American Historical Buttons.     Noel D.Justice   1942  

The Big Book of  Buttons .  E.Hughes & M.Lester.  Boyertown    1981  Lib. of Congress Cat. No. 91-60835.  ISBN 0 9629046-0-0  New Leaf   1991 a new edition is due out ( St. Johann Press)  in mid July 2007. 

The Button Book   Diana Epstien    ISBN 1561387398    Running Press Books 1996

The Button Collectors History. Grace.Horney Ford    1943  Reported Reprint   New england   1976

The Button Hand book.     Florence Zacharie Ellis Nicholls. 3 Supplements    BL66/11 & JB dates   1943 1945 

The Button Industry.     W.UniteJones.      Reprinted: 

The Birmingham Button Industry   Deirdre White    (1977)   described as Academic Journal offprint from Post-Mediaeval Archaeology 11 13pp 2 figs. 4b/w . card cover. binding date unknown    Sc.  abe

The Birmingham Button Trade  Deirdre White   Information Sheet,Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery DLH 1. 1981

The Button Industry in the United States     Edward Louis Newberger   St Johan Press   ISBN 1878282085       c1991

The Button Lovers Book      Marilyn V. Green  

The Button Sampler.      Lillian Smith Albert & Jane Ford Adams   Barrows & Co.   b/w. 143pp      NY.      1951 Gramercy Pub   1951  Barrows & Co   1961 Reprinted reference to  c1971

The Button String   Thelma Shull  71pp  c1942

The Collector’s Encyclopedia of Buttons .    Sally C. Luscombe       & again in  2003

The Collectors Guide to Buttons  Diana Epstein  

The Colorful World of  Buttons. Vivian Beck Ertell  

The Complete Button Book.  Lillian Smith Albert &  Katherine Kent.   illustrated line drawings & photo’s. 5200, on 409 pages  USA. Doubleday          1949   Reprint   John Edwards          c1971

The Collection of Military Buttons   Luis Fenollosa Emilio.   USA.   1911

The Extraordinary Adventures of Benjamin Saunders Button Maker of Bromsgrove     Alan Richards  

The History of the Dorset Button    Amy Mildred Jackson  1970 

The Magic Land of Kate Greenaway

The Mill on Mad River    Scovill Manufacturing Co.  Little Brown & Co    1948   Sc: KSKS lists 1953 date

The Old Button Box.         Sally Luscombe & Ethel  Cassidy     1951     Sc: abe 

The 2006-2011 World Outlook for Manufacturing Fasteners, Buttons, Needles, Pins & Buckles    Icon International group          2005

More titles available see their website www.icongrouponline.com

The 2006-2011 World Outlook for Metal Buttons & Button Backs, Blanks,Molds, & Other Parts Excluding Buttons & Button Parts Made of Precious & Semi- Precious Metals & Precious & Semi-Precious Stones  Prof. Phillip Parker Ph.D.

ISBN several presumably different languages?.  Icon International group         2005     www.icongrouponline.com

I have not seen the above. Anyone know of a source other than purchase? There must be tons of past & present market research material out there.

Through the Button Hole     Harriet Burkheimer               KSKS 

Trade Boards acts 1909 & 1918  

Transportation Buttons  Vol I Railroad   Donald P. Van Court    ISBN 0961830107  Humphrey Press   1987 

Transportation Buttons  Vol II  Transit Donald P. Van Court       

Transportation Buttons  Vol III

Maritime & Aviation     Donald P. Van Court     

Uniform Buttons     Enfield Arsenal Manual MK1.  Evelyn  Vickers - Smith.   PP. ?.       Kitchener House Publishers 1965   

Uniform Buttons  Vol I   David F Johnson  1948www.knopfsammler.de

Uniform Buttons  Vol II   David F Johnson   1948www.knopfsammler.de

Uniform Buttons of the Mounted Police 1874-1980   K.en W. Taylor & Bernard G.  Frye,     Calgary  K Taylor   23pp ill. 1985

Uniform Buttons of the Republic of Texas      Bob Shelton   1986www.knopfsammler.de

Uniform Buttons of the United States, 1776-1865   Warren Tice    ISBN1577470249   Thomas       1997  

Uniformsknapper I den Denske Haer 1911-1997    Karsten Skyold Petersen 86bb ill some col ISBN 8798552163  1998

United States Military  Buttons  of the Land Services 1787-1902  A Guide & classificatory System

Von Knopfmachern und Knopfen  300 jahr Knopfherstellung im Kyffhausergebiet  KSKS

Who’s Got the Button?  Old & new angles to Button Collecting   Catherine Roberts   L.L.& Shepard  ISBN 0688517420        1976  

Washington Historical Buttons   Alphaeus H. Albert      1949    CHK Pol. RECORD

Wedgewood Buttons 1752-1963   Lillian Smith Albert     ND    Sc. Amazon.com

Yesterdays Button Classics  Edwina L. Couse & Marguerite Maple 

Your Hot Button     Laura Elizabeth    1990  Sc: KSKS

 

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