jar of old antique vintage buttons from five generations family farm, many 1800s

jar of old antique vintage buttons from five generations family farm, many 1800s
jar of old antique vintage buttons from five generations family farm, many 1800s
jar of old antique vintage buttons from five generations family farm, many 1800s
jar of old antique vintage buttons from five generations family farm, many 1800s
jar of old antique vintage buttons from five generations family farm, many 1800s
jar of old antique vintage buttons from five generations family farm, many 1800s
jar of old antique vintage buttons from five generations family farm, many 1800s
jar of old antique vintage buttons from five generations family farm, many 1800s
jar of old antique vintage buttons from five generations family farm, many 1800s
jar of old antique vintage buttons from five generations family farm, many 1800s
jar of old antique vintage buttons from five generations family farm, many 1800s
jar of old antique vintage buttons from five generations family farm, many 1800s

Large glass herring jar (6 1/2" x 5" x 5") holding a button collection from several lifetimes! This is right out of a farm estate near the Wisconsin River, very rural country where everything was saved for use and reuse.

These buttons were collected over five generations, and there's a lot of them here going back into the 1800s. Many pearl shell, some bone, some rubber - some newer at only 40 or 50 years old, bakelite and plastic.

Nothing terribly fancy, these are mostly plain working everyday clothes buttons. It's a wonderful, very interesting time capsule here!

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