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---. "The 1987 George & Viviane Ertell Color Plates / A Kaleidoscope of Victorian Buttons" National Button Bulletin (Dec 1987).

---. "Buttons of the Victorian Era" National Button Bulletin (Dec 1987).

---. "Button Jewels" Victoria (Feb 1991).

---. "Changing Button Styles Through the Years" National Button Bulletin (Dec 1987).

---. "Totally Hooked" Designed & Inspire Needlework (Aug 1997).UK; about button hooks

---. "Treasures in the Round   Renaissance Buttons" Victoria (Aug 1994).

Adams, George Elbert. Backs of Buttons (1946) G.E.Adams, Glocester, RI.

Adams, Jane Ford. "Highly Collectible Paperweight Buttons" Spinning Wheel (Oct 1974).

Albert, Lillian Smith & Adams, Jane Ford. The Button Sampler (1951) Gramercy Pub Co., NY.

Barry, Elizabeth. "Sew Collectible" Sew News (March 1999) includes sewing machines, toy sewing machines, buttons & sewing notions.

Brown, Dorothy Foster. "Button Collecting / The Sewing Circle" Hobbies (Feb 1966).

Burgess, Cynthia. "Vintage Buttons" American Country Collectibles (Feb/Mar 1992).

Clifford, Anne. Cut-Steel & Berlin Iron Jewellery (1971) A.S.Barnes & Co., South Brunswick & NY; includes chatelaines, buttons, & buckles.

Dagmi, Jane. "Button It Up!" Country Living (Feb 2000) using discarded pearl, plastic & bone buttons in Folk Art Mosaics.

Epstein, Diana. Buttons (1968) Walker & Co., NY.

Friedel, Robert. Zipper   An Exploration in Novelty (1994) W.W.Norton & Co., Inc, NYC, & London.

Green, Marilyn. The Button Lover's Book (1991) Chilton Book Co., Radnor, PA.

Heffernan, Patti. "Paperweight Buttons" Antique Trader Weekly (Jan 9, 1991) - only have front page.

Hurt, Zuelia Ann. "Craft Tools -- Then & Now" Decorating & Craft Ideas --threads & threadholders (May 1981).

Mellish, Susan. "Buttons:   They Aren't Just for Fastening Clothes" AntiqueWeek (May 16, 1994).

Melton, Sidney.. "Materials Are Everywhere for Handmade Buttons" Decorating & Craft Ideas (Mar 1980). Consider whether this belongs here?

Newberger, Edward Louis. The Button Industry in the United States (1998) St. Johann Press, Haworth, NJ.

Osborne, Peggy Ann. "Art in Miniature / An Introduction to Paperweight Buttons" -"Part I - Historical Background"(June/July 1992); -"Part II - Buttons Makers & Prices" (Aug/Sept 1992) Glass Collectors Digest, GCD, Marietta, OH.

Souder, Mattie. Notions (1922) The Ronald Press Co., NY; includes sewing tools & notions.

Wisniewski, Debra J. Antique & Collectible Buttons   Identification & Values (1997) Collectors Books, Paduca, KY