Week 15 - Aged Beauty
"Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think this weeks prompt is one of my favourites so far. I was spoiled for choice in subject selection - which means of course plenty of old weathered items hanging around here!
I eventually settled my eye (and the iPhone macro lens) on these buttons. They were originally from hubby's grandmother's stash. When she moved house, about a decade ago, she handed out some of her prized collections, one of which was her button stash. I think I have at least four very, very large jars filled with buttons dating from the early 1900's through to the Second World War and on to the late 1980's.
Jessie worked in the Button Bar in Adelaide through her teen years and later, when her children had grown. Her collection included military buttons from many of the servicemen stationed in and around Adelaide, and sample cards like those pictured here, given out by the salesmen to entice stock orders. The buttons pictured here are carved Mother of Pearl and are no larger than a pea.
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