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1890? 1 circular FC button, brass surrounded by metal studs, 1¼" in diameter. $31 from Resa Truslow, Boise, Idaho, through Ebay, July, '99.

The pattern is the same as that on the Wiedeman button of similar proportions, but the button comes from a…

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1890? 2 circular FC buttons, stamped brass, one silvered, both decorated with a border of facetted steels. $40 from Lenore Monleón, Chelsea Antiques, NY, April, '97.

One image is silver in color, the other bronze. Ms. Monleón had lots of animal…

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1890? One brass FC button, 7/8" in diameter. $8.33 from Robin Larner, July, '99.

Identical in design with the two 5/8" FC buttons. BBB Plate 154 #6. Let me quote from there: "Stamped brass, cut out and backed by a painted metal liner, with a…

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1890? Two small brass FC buttons, 5/8" in diameter. $10 from Joni Goldbarg through Ebay, April, '99, and $3.25 from Darlene Focazio through Ebay, May, '99.

This button, by contrast with the Monleón exemplars, puts the fox on the lower right and…

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1890? One large button, 1 5/8" in diameter, showing a running fox (or dog?) and a fowl in flight just above it. $35 from Bruce Beck, Cedarburg, WI, August, '99.

This is the largest button I have found. The two figures are surrounded by reeds,…

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1890? Two large FG buttons, 1.5" in diameter. $50 from Joyce's Jems at the Dulles International Antiques Show and Sale, April, '97 and $20 from Onie Wiedeman, Minot, ND, May, '99.

The Big Book of Buttons (Elizabeth Hughes and Marion Lester, Second…

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1890? 2 matched FG buttons, .6" in diameter. $25 from Joyce's Jems at the Dulles International Antiques Show and Sale, April, '97, and $12 from Joni Goldbarg through Ebay, April, '99.

The same scene as in the 1.5" Joyce's Jems large button.…

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1890? A brass FG button 7/8" in diameter, showing somewhat less of the scene than the Joyce's Jems buttons. $12 from Joni Goldbarg through Ebay, April, '99.

A tree with a high picket fence replaces the grasses on the left, there is nothing on the…

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1890? A brass FG button 7/8" in diameter, with no dark background. $8.33 from Robin Larner, July, '99.

Identical with the Goldbarg button of the same dimensions, except that this one shows only the bright brass color. See my comments there. Like…

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1890? One one-piece FG stamped-brass button, 1 3/16" in diameter, showing the fox looking back at a cluster of applied steel grapes. $46.50 from Robin Larner, Rochester, NY, through Ebay, April, '99.

This button takes a different artistic…
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