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Welcome to my Web Site!
My name is Paul Rice. I am retired
and live in Augusta, Georgia. This site presents a collection of buttons
handed down to me from my Grandmother. I have undertaken the effort to
document and preserve the collection and to become a knowledgeable
collector.
Purpose: My principal
objectives for this site are (1) to provide the means for family,
friends, and others interested in buttons to see the collection; (2) document my
efforts to mount, categorize, and preserve the collection; (3) to
use the Button Gallery images as an inventory/library as I study the
literature and internet inputs to become more knowledgeable.
Background - My grandmother
was an avid collector of many items in the early to mid 1900s, buttons being her favorite. After my grandmother passed away in the 1950s, my
mother who was not a collector, had a strong desire to display her mother’s button collection.
In 1965, I created 12 frames of buttons from the collection that you see to the right.
After my mother passed away in 2005 at age 97, the button
collection came to me. In late 2006, after observing
deterioration and damage due to 50 years of improper storage, I
decided to preserve the collection. My initial involvement grew
to my current desire to become a knowledgeable collector.
Goals - My
three goals are (1) to become knowledgeable in the basics of button
collecting so that I can identify, inventory, clean and
display the button collection; (2) to develop and document the
collection so that those in my family who follow me will become
interested and engaged; and (3) to introduce new people to
button collecting and assist them as other more experienced
collectors have assisted me.
Thank you for visiting and thanks in advance for your
suggestions and feedback!
Check out the site.
The "Background" link
to the left will lead you to additional information on the wonderful lady
who assembled the collection shown here.
The "Button Gallery"
link will take you to images for the 12 frames on the right
and the additional frames I have mounted since September
2006. Most of the button gallery images have sub-images for a
closer look.
The "Q&A Gallery" link
leads to a page where I can post button images about which I have
questions.
The "Feedback" link is
self explanatory. However, my email address below works just as
well.
Email:
price6@comcast.net
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