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British Buttons Trade Journal for the  British Button manufacturers Association & the Casein Button Manufacturers Association.   see also adverts, trade mark cat. & cross ref individual Co s. First edition was probably 1946.                    1946: June   Bm.Cat. No.699622.    1947: June, August, September, October,  1948:  1949: October,1950:  1952:  1953: Coronation issue.  1954: February,  1955: November,  1956: November,  1957: April, Comments: Blib. Holding at CF5 STB687.805 vol1, No. 8 - Vol. 9 Vol. 29-36; 1946-1965 miss. Vol3-5,8.               Issues shewn in bold  are in my collection - mostly photocopies.

Bulletin of La Société Jersiaise    Annual Bulletin of La Société Jersiaise               1990 

Bulletin  The Military Historical Society Lots of articles about buttons; I shall be moving more references in here soon.

Buttons London   Continues British Buttons    Serial (hard copy?) Vol 36,no. 8-vol. 42no.7;Aug. 1965-July1971.

Button Lines   British Button Society.  Available: Back issues direct from society

Button Lines Index 1976-1995     Available: direct from the Society

Journal of the Indian Military Historical Society   Indian Military Historical Society  A.N. Mc.Clenaghan, 37 Wolsey Close, Southall, Mddx. UB2 4NQ  £8.00pa  

Journal  of the Society for Army Historical Research    mentioned to me by a dealer as having `several atricles on buttons'

Journal of the Statistical & Social Inquiry Society of Ireland Volume XVII ninety –sixth session, 1942-1943. A record of comments, by Miss I Hughes Dowling, following the paper on population trends in Mayo `…some attempt was made in Mayo to introduce cottage industries and at one time the crocheting of buttons was a home industry there…’   

Historical Archaeology     Vol 36 part 4 pp33-37   2002   The Society for Historical Archaeology                                                                 Preservation of Waterlogged Buttons & Threads a case study 

Minnesota Button Review   M.State Button Society   Comments: not seen

National American Glass Bulletin  Repotedly  almost the whole issue is given over to a lecture from a member of the Paperweight Collector’s Association.     Sc. JB August 1969  p214  

Newsletter:   Canadian Society of Military Medals and Insignia         Canadian militia buttons, 1933, S;  E VII Royal Cypher NL48; Canadian Military uniform buttons 820235;  The RAF Eagle/Albotross Controversy 186, 684;    Canadian Militia button 970132   Canadian military buttons, 1960, 542   the articles can be seen at    http://www.thecsmmi.com

Pioneer Button Club Newsletter  the only mention I've seen is in Sc: BL47/6   quoting  Canadian Militia Buttons   Picton Gazette  30 Jan 1863.  also listed in Geocites list; link above . 

The Button Bulletin1947-1964

Quarterly Bulletin before 1947.

The National Button Bulletin 1965-   Journal of the National Button Society USA.

 National Button Bulletin Index 1942-1981    Helen Cooper Colonial    Button Club York PA 1982  

 National Button Bulletin Index 1982-1993   Pat Fields; Washington State Button Society, Seattle WA  1994 

Official  NBS Classification system  ISSN 1549-2206    Various known between 1999-2003 see button books  

Through the Green   Magazine of the British Golf Collectors Society  Hamish Ewan Membership secretary BGCS,20 Druim Avenue, Inverness IV2 4LG   Golf Button Collecting  Dick Durran September 1995  p19  

Western Button News   Santa Clara CA. USA     Blib. Hold Vol1-vol.3 no.5 Feb 1967-Aug1969

 York County Button Club Newsletters,  Maine State Button Society, can be viewed online at: http://www.mainebuttons.com/index.html

 

Revised: June 23, 2007 .