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PERIODICALS CONTAINING ARTICLES ON or references to BUTTONS &c:

Scanned copies of originals or decent photocopies required inclusion in my mini archive; if you have any please send them over.

Abbreviations used:

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

JB  Just  buttons      

  MHSB. Military Historical Society Bulletin.    MS.      Manuscript  

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

Sc:  Source

 

 

Antiques & Art Around Florida  summer/fall 1998     Button Collecting a Lifetime Voyage of Discovery  by M.W. Speights, Editor NBB.  reproduced @    http://www.aarf.com/febutt98.htm

ABC Dicor  N49   1968   Paris C.P.I.P Boutons Anciens –Les fiancés de Delft   www.Livre-rare-book.com   Comments: haven’t seen this  

Antique Arms & Militaria     D?   Seven Interesting   Buttons  of the Rifle Volunteers   R. Westlake  

Aris s Birmingham Gazette    as quoted by: False Marks;  RP. BL51/16-17   28/12/1795;   RP. BL53/14   27/6/1799;

Aberdeen Press & Journal    William Burns    Obituary  Wednesday August 1927 New Page 1

Ambulance Journal May 1980.    Uniform   Buttons  of the Ambulance Service    H. Ripley.  

Button Review   Edited by Robert M. Hillis   Sc. LibC.    IHaven’t seen or heard of this one before.   Anyone?

Buttons     Herbert W. Bradnick  London    BritLib Holding vol41 no.1-6, 7-12,vol 42 no.1 Jan 1970   Comments: never seen this before    

Uniform   Buttons  of the Jersey Militia       N.B. Le Cornu              1990  ext.                   RP.BL66/6-10  

Cheshire Life   October       1969   A Tale of Two Tailors L.N. Radcliffe,   Comments J. Smith & Gieves p109XX page only  

Corticelli Home Needlework    Embroidered & Jewelled Buttons J.C.Bliss ext. from   BL69/14-15

Costume Society of America: Dress       Vol 14 annual journal    1988   Sc:  BCBY reports contains buttons

Country Life    1994   Vol. CLXXXVIII No.2  January 13     On the Button   D.G.Blair.    also  RP.  BL80/18-19 Comments: Uniform/Costume. Illustrated. Sporting  buttons general.   There have, reportedly,  been other articles on buttons in this publication references anyone?

East Anglia Magazine May 1958    The Button Game  BL56/18

Embroidery  magazine Dec   1937     Buttons  & How To Make Them    RP      BL54/10-17

Edinburgh Evening News    Manclark & Son   12/4/1950;  Manclark & Son  10/6/1981  

Evening News  April 19 1950    Turncoats                       RP. BL59/3

Fashion Digest    [New York]   From an advert In JB 1966:

`…Important aids to collectors in data on period and historical research. Articles on unique buttons from time to time…’  

G.W.R. Magazine                  date?     A Collection of Railway Uniform Buttons by D.V.L.   RP. BL44/15-17 

Godey’s Ladies Book  December 1865      Sc. JB March 1969  p111 extract given.  

Grimsby  Evening Telegraph:   W.J.Atkinson      20/11/1973;

Harper’s Bazaar       November 1877  June 1878 January 1883  October 1995     Sc. JB March 1969  p111 extracts given.

Hobbies Magazine. USA    Is mentioned frequently by Sally Luscomb in her Just Buttons Magazine 

Illustrated News April 1853    Sc. JB March 1969  p111 extract given.

Just Buttons Magazine   Known dates of pub. 1945 -1979. privately published Comments: highly recommended lots of articles for all tastes; when you can find them they are $1.75-$10.00 earliest  I 've seen for sale 1946

La Mode Illustree, Journal de la Famille November 6th 1898. quoted by Fashion & Trade Documents as Sources R. Frescu-Corbu BL27/8-10

Ladies Home Journal   April 1896.     Sc. JB March 1969  p111 extract given 

Leisure Hour                           1853 ref?  

Military Modelling    June1937    R. Marrion  WEST INDIES :ill.    RP. BL52/2   

Model Shipwright    Flags For The Revenue Cutters.    Alec A. Purves.  Line drawings  SC

Notebook: The Institute Of Archeology & Anthropology,   The University of South Carolina, Vol. V No. 3   may/june           1973  

[the?] Overseas Daily Mail 

Picton Gazette  30Jan 1863.  Canadian Militia Buttons   via Pioneer Button Club Newsletter  to   BL47/6  

Post-Medieval Archaeology    The Birmingham Button Industry.   D.P.White.   [ref?] Xi                1977    

Readers Digest    1958    by Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio, Reproduced at  Sc: www.vintagebuttons.net

Soldier Magazine.      date?    History on the Button    P. Wilcox                 RP.BL71/12-14

Southern Reporter   Ireland    Keane & Turnbull, Cork. Advertisement                  17/8/1830 www.buttoncrs.com

Souvenir edition of London Morning Post  1901.

Sunday Times                11/8/1991  NT. ext   YACHT & BOATING        .BL69/19

The Antique Collector May     1934    Early Metal   Buttons  F. Buckley                  RP.  BL57/4-6

The Antiques Journal:   vol 28 No.1 jan   1973  Availability abe  $8 Comments: contains article on buttons  

The Art Journal     1909     Buttons     R.L.B.Rathbone

The Birmingham Historian   Pandora’s Box or Buttons Unlimited  RP. BL75/9-11

The Connoisseur.  

July 24th, 1755. No. LXXVIII. BL? `English Sporting Buttons’ of the 18th & 19th Centuries.  See encyclopaedia  

vol. LXVII  No. CCLXVII Nov.  1923   The Earlier Buttons  of the British Army   Maj. H. G. Parkyn     BL53/16-23

vol. LXXIV. No. 314 October pp90-100.     1927   Some Early English Sea Service  Buttons .  Capt. A. Roward List from Bland indicates update in Mariners Mirror,  1945.by M. Lewis. Comments: Uniform. Illustrated, informative [poor quality p copy]. identtifies and dates several  buttons not identified elsewhere 

Vol???  October 1956   SleeveButtons of the seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries F. Russell-Smith.

VOL????   English Sporting Buttons of the 18th & 19th. Centuries. Pp64-65  Faith Russell Smith

 

The Canadian Society of Military Medals and Insignia    newsletters 1965-2004 

   Canadian militia buttons, 1933, S

   E VII Royal Cypher NL48

   Canadian Military uniform buttons 820235

   The RAF Eagle-Albatross Controversy 186, 684

   Canadian Militia button 970132

   Canadian military buttons, 1960, 542  

The Countryman  Burford Oxford  England   Dorset Buttons   Marian Chappell  Sc. copied in JB January 1969  pp67-71.  

The Gazzette    Jan.  1963   John Lewis partnership.    Bainbridges Newcastle

The Gentleman’s Magazine of Fashions,’  Vol. II Jan-Dec. 1829 p236.

The Girls Own Paper   Empire Buttons May 1895    RP BL30/7

A New Employment for Girls, The Art Button Industry of Today           Nov. 1904

The Hornsey Journal   contains an article on pearly king Mr Stannard. Reproduced in Sc. BB October 1947. 

The Illustrated Exhibitor and Magazine of Art.   Vol. 1  (of three)   pp346-349.  London                 1852

The Button Manufacture of Birmingham. J.Cassell   Birmingham Lib. Cat. LP 67.4 No.662061.

The Ladies Realm         1905-1906        Extracts BL74/15

The Ladies World 1887 quoted in Fashion & Trade Documents a sources. R. Frescu-corbu BL27/8-10

The Lancashire Evening Post        Stephen Simpson  ill.  14/11/1975

The Local Historian  IX        (1970)   Journal British Association for Local History   Fire Insurance Policies as a Source of Local History          L.M. Wulcko   

[The?] London Evening Post      26/04/1740   Sc. `English Sporting Buttons’ of the 18th & 19th Centuries.  Faith Russell Smith `Connoisseur ??? 

The Mariners Mirror               1945

Journal for the society for Nautical Research Vol. 31   Camb. University press.Naval   Buttons   M Lewis.April  pp56-83  July  pt2 114-143. Comments: my copies facing page of part 1 & pages 124-125 missing.  plate 1 btwn 136-137 bottom missing. 

The Metal Industry   Jan 30   1942   History of Birmingham Non-Ferrous Metal Trades           J.W.Jones

The Penny Magazine    No.813 Vol. XIII.-30     Nov.   1844    A Day at the Birmingham Factories   anon?                RP.BL52 pp14-18

The Public Advertisor’        4th March, 1756.  Sc. English Sporting Buttons’ of the 18th & 19th Centuries.  Faith Russell Smith   `Connoisseur ????’

The Scotsman:  William Anderson  Edinburgh    24/10/1968;

 The Searcher    Oct.  Buttons from Across the Channel     D. Spears  p44                        19 

Article by dave knight discusses & identifies buttons from RA & RAOC       yr. etc.?

The Sunday Mirror            June 5th 1988 p21 A terror of buttons Koumphiphobia Sc BL56/9[NTS> check title]

The Woman at Home  Oct.     1901    Sc.?                    

Tit-Bits  magazine  May 3       1902    Fashion & Trade Documents as Sources  R. Fresco-Corbu   Comments: quotes            BL27/8-9  

Dress & Fashion    An extract       BL29/6

Western Daily Mail Jan. 30    1860   Dreadful Accident From Crinoline   W. Guest & Co. Ltd.   RP. BL46/15    

Yorkshire Illustrated   January   1953   Eboracum Bowmen         RP BL50/7

  Discovered a Box of   Buttons                       1954   A. Oswald & F. Russell Smith             RP. BL74/5-9

 

Revised: June 23, 2007 .
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