Alan Rosenzweig started collecting buttons 50 years ago when he was just 12 years old as a competition with his friend Bobby. Bobby got out to the early lead with 70 buttons to Rosenzweig’s 50, but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laurel Durso, president of the Connecticut State Button Society, has a 20,000 button collection spread out across her home. Her ...

Collection documents the manufacture of both freshwater pearl and plastic buttons in Muscatine, Iowa, including at least 12 different companies from primarily 1925 to the 1960s. Collection documents ...

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - As speakers deliver their messages at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, Paul Bengston’s eyes are drawn elsewhere on his TV screen. “That’s all I’m looking at,” ...

Q This collection of political campaign buttons has been in my family forever, but I’ve never really investigated what it is. I don’t even know who in my family compiled the collection. I’m downsizing ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) – Donald trump is the 45th man in American history to assume the highest office in the land and it took a contentious political race to get there. But as history shows, this is ...

Little has changed about the humble button since it first began being used functionally in the 13th century. From the Mongol invasion of Europe to last week’s annual Oregon Brewers Festival, buttons ...

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 ...

The name Alton B. Parker is probably unknown to most of the voters who will cast their ballots for president Nov. 8, but in 1904, he was as famous as either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. Parker, a ...

"Button Button, who's got the button?" Today, it's the collector. The hobby is widespread among artisans, fashion designers, crafts people and especially antique button buffs. Button collecting first ...

WATERBURY, Conn., Oct. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mattatuck Museum is preparing to debut Beau McCall: Buttons On!, the first-ever retrospective of the artist Beau McCall, opening on October 12, 2025, ...