Textiles and Fashion in the 20th Century

Display Cards with Buttons: Old Fashioned Garden, April Showers, Crated Fruit

Marion Weeber Welsh, a designer of silverware and costume jewelry, designed “realistic” novelty buttons resembling birds, fruit, vegetables, flowers, and plates of food. The button components were individually molded in celluloid plastic and displayed on cleverly designed cards.



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Display Cards with Buttons: Old Fashioned Garden, April Showers, Crated Fruit
Designed by Marion Weeber Welsh (1905-2000)
Manufactured by B. Blumenthal and Co. for La Mode
United States, 1941-47
Celluloid, cardboard
Bequest of Marion Weeber Welsh. 2006-2-18/46, 72/88