FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The Three Rivers Festival makes a new button every year. The pin can get you discounts on some tickets around the festival, but, for some, they mean a lot more. Over the ...

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) Peggy Mathes still has the first button she ever collected a trapezoid-shaped piece made of bakelite, trimmed with a row of rhinestones. "It was in 1988," Mathes said. "I was in an ...

Trays of buttons bequeathed by Bertha Beam are on display at the Allen County Museum. Beam, who began collecting buttons as a 5-year-old in the 1880s, had amassed about 12,000 of them by 1948 and was ...

BLOOMINGTON — Russa Milburn once spent four hours sifting through a “poke box.” It was early in her nearly 10-year career as a collector, but the incident — at an Indiana state show — was a sure sign ...

Syliva Whiten’s husband, Bob Whiten, has his own, small collection of buttons from his firefighter parade coat. He has served with the Charleroi Fire Department for 60 years. Sylvia Whiten keeps her ...

Q: We have a fabulous antique button collection collected by a family member, a deceased former president of the National Button Society. The buttons are all sorted and carded and go back to the time ...

Exhibit: The button exhibit can be viewed through March at the Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave., Coeur d’Alene. Club: The Historical Button Club meets at noon the second Wednesday of ...

POWELL, Wyo. (AP) At some time in their lives, nearly every child has emptied out mother s button box, searching through the collection for a unique color or shape, finding a hidden treasure in a ...