#CHINA BUTTON CITY UPGRADE#

My nicest is a 15/16th inch #251 which is far more beautiful than the fragment picture shown in the standard picture.

The remaining ones are getting tougher to find. We have a nice overall china collection and my calicos consist of ~287 of the 327 known varieties accumulated in 10 years. The chinas and calicos/stencils in particular had such descriptions of each known variety and I was drawn to them and spend many hours searching for the hard to find ones. Stamp collectors often strive for completeness in a collection since every variety of stamp is listed in standard catalogs. I started collecting buttons after attending many button shows (no good deed ever goes unpunished) with my late wife, Joy, and suddenly realized that it was as much fun as stamp and coin collecting with probably more chance for creativity than the latter. The best thing I have found about collecting Chinas is the good friends that I have made.

#CHINA BUTTON CITY UPGRADE#

I am always trying to upgrade it with an unexpected find. My favorite Chinas that I own are a card of mediums that I won a Merit at a Texas State Show. When he finds a China while hunting it is still in great shape unlike other buttons that have deteriorated from being exposed to the elements. I have even taught my husband to spot them. I enjoy collecting all of the China catagories but especially enjoy locating a hard to find or unlisted species. I collect all buttons but a dear friend (Bobby McBay) introduced me to Chinas and they became my quest.

I belong to the Fort Worth Button Club and NBS. I soon learned that there was such a thing as a button club and I have been hooked ever since. I bought the book 'Button Button' and was intrigued by the history of buttons. We had a great time speculating about how generations of these Pack Rats had been stealing buttons to pad their nest from the occupants of this home. He found the buttons in a rats nest while hunting inside the foundation of a Victorian home that had been torn down in Cleburne, TX. I started collecting buttons in 1993 when my Treasure Hunter husband (Jess) brought me a bag of Pearl buttons from one of his digs. My current favorite china buttons are a brown and black Greek key whistle and an igloo with a blue mottled disk and a white dome. I live on a small ranch in the Texas Hill Country and I am a member of a button club in a neighboring town. I now collect all types of china buttons but whistles are my current favorites. She didn't have any to show so I used my new computer to find Jody Behrbaum's China Calico website. I first attended a button presentation in the spring of 1998 and I knew that I was hooked when the presenter mentioned and described china calico buttons.

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