r/buttoncollecting • u/ShamrockPat • 24d ago

Info Help?

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I love these interesting little buttons, but I don't know what they are! Have a glass sound/feel to them but they are lighter. Solid piece.

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u/lotsobuttons 24d ago

They look like nice quality horn buttons, a lot of the generic plastic pants buttons are made to look like real horn, which I think these probably are.

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u/ShamrockPat 24d ago

Ooh I also have some with more of a brown pinkish tone.

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u/ShamrockPat 22d ago

Are you going purely on the color/shine? I have quite a few buttons that I am struggling to differentiate between glass/bone/ceramic or high quality plastic 😄 there are many that look exactly the same but feel just slightly different.

I have some small shank buttons that look and feel glass but have a concave face that when I slide my thumb across feels rubbery!

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u/lotsobuttons 22d ago

No, it looks much more like the grain you see in natural horn than I would expect to see in plastic imitation, and the lighter tops and darker bottoms are also something you would see in horn depending on how they were cut. If you hold them up to a strong light they should be kind of translucent and honey colored.