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This is one of various buttons that I didn't find before the book was published. Two other designs are to the right, including what all the backs look like. These are also beads - each has a hole at the top and bottom.

I had these tested and they are enameled on copper and then plated in gold. To get the color as it is, there is an initial layer of white opaque enamel on the copper and then colroized with transparent colors.
They are Champleve, not Cloisonne, and apprear to me as being cast.

If you know anything about these or have another design to share, please email me.

Some has suggested these was made by Gita Maria Sturm, but I have confirmed with her that they are not.

more styles coming soon

Dottie Cloughley has some of these for sale.

Michelin Ebstein

no more information is know about this person

Brooks & Sons

Sold by Brook & Sons; backmarked D&F - Deakin & Francis Ltd, in business since 1786

Anchor stamp is for Birmingham; Lion is for sterling qulaity; k is for 1909

This set is still for sale by Bruce Beck.

Lawrence Fellows

This set is still for sale by Annie Frazier

EJ Peeler

Alhtough EJ Peeler is listed in the book, and this button is not signed, it so closely resembles one of Ms. Peeler's buttons in the book (page 102) that it's safe to say it was done by her. Note that she must have enameled this from the back of the button. Normally plique is done so that it's virtually reversable so that the back is not totally covered in enamel.

Kathy Hoppe

Normally the buttons that Kathy imported (page 88) were dated on the back. But this button was a sample and never put into production so it is a one of a kind and the back has no date.

Herman Lowenstein

Simon Mower

On page 101 of my book I have information on Simon Mower's 3 Plique-à-jour buttons that were commission by Andrian Sadgrove. However, I only show two of them. Here is the 3rd. In addition, I state that the backmark is that of Andrian Sadgrove but that is an error - the backmark is SRDM which is how Mower signed his pieces. I have also put a correction on my Corrections page.

Joan Bazzel

As a young child, Ms. Bazzel was allowed to play with her Gran’s button tin, but only once! The memory lingered - all those beautiful buttons, each one a tiny work of art! As a young adult she decided to pursue a career in artistic endeavors which brought her to art schools, then college, then craft fairs where she sold her jewelry from California to Canada.

A chance encounter with a small enamel plaque sent Ms. Bazzel on a journey into hot glass enamel as an art medium well suited to making jewelry. She was fortunate to have two incredible enameling mentors while living in San Diego, and Cloisonné enameling became a passion.

A move across the country to North Carolina opened new avenues of interest for her and rekindled her memory of all those beautiful buttons in Gran’s tin. She’d been a member of NBS for many years, thus decided to combine 3 passions into one; in 2023 she started making unique studio buttons using enameling techniques of Basse Taille, Émaux Peints, and Cloisonné. Her work is either signed with “jbz” or a stamped “Joan Bazzel” into metal. Her ETSY shop, features button jewelry designs as well as enamels and other curiosities, and her website offers a visual array of past and present work.

TW&W Paris - Trelon, Weldon, Weil

I found this information: Since 1814, many beautiful buttons carry the unique seal of TW&W Paris (Trelon, Weldon, Weil), the oldest factory of metal buttons maintaining its business, was renamed Coinderoux in 1904 and purchased in 2008 by the company Janvier. From the Napoleonic Army uniforms to the contemporary stylists of Haute Couture, the shapes and materials testify to a rich history. 

I am trying to find out more information and will post here if I find it. Here is the button I bought (it's a small):

Charles Peltant

I couldn't find much about this maker, but I did find on the web an enameled vase by him.

Clouds

These were made for fashion designer Jean Muir in England about 1980. Read about her here and here. I couldn't find much about Clouds, though. If you know more, please contact me.

Feather Water Joined

I couldn't find any information on this company.

Harold Tishler

Harold Tishler was a Russian-born enamelist who studied under Joseph Hoffman at Vienna’s Wiener Workstatte and later became an instructor at New York City’s New School. When he died his wife donated a large number of his pieces to Woodrow (Woody) Carpenter, then owner of Thompson Enamel in Bellevue, KY (see page 22 in my book). Upon Woody's death the collection was transfered to the Carpenter Art Enamel Foundation where it currently resides. Read more about Tishler's background. Tishler's sometimes created with "score and fold" metal work. One of his patterns is in a mini-project in my 2nd book, The Art of Fine Enameling, Second Edition, page 171.

The button below was made for Nellie P. Van Buskirk, descendant of an early Dutch settler & a serious button collector who commissioned studio buttons from leading artists of her era.

Kenneth Jay Lane

Kenneth Jay Lane is a line of "Fabulous Fakes" jewelry since 1962. "Kennys" have been worn by such famous people as Jackie Onassis and Audrey Hepburn. The owner, Kenneth Jay Lane, was a 1954 graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. Mr. Lane died in 2017, but his line continues in their NYC location under the ownership of Chris Sheppard. They used to make fashion accessories such as buttons, but no longer do. Here is a Champlevé with the tag that was attached to it.

Glenda Ott

Glenda Ott is on page 102 of my book. However, I only show one of her Plique-à-jour buttons. Here is an example of her Cloisonné buttons.