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Item #: child10. Button: The Wolf and the Crane; Aesop and LaFontaine fable. Stickpin.
3/4" diameter. Circa 1880's. Price $45.
The wolf, having a bone stuck in his throat, begged the crane to get it out for
him with her long beak. He offered to reward her well. She removed the bone and
then asked for the reward, but the wolf growled and replied, "What more do you
want? You put your head in the wolf's mouth and came out unscathed. Surely that
is reward enough!"
The picture on the buttons was taken from Grandville's illustration to this fable.
Item #: child9. Button: The Fox and the Grapes; a fable by Aesop and LaFontaine.
Necklace or stickpin. 5/8" diameter. Price $45.
The fox sees a bunch of luscious looking grapes and tries to reach them. However,
they are out of reach and he is finally compelled to give up. As he walks away
in disgust, he says to himself, "They were probably sour, anyway". Thus, the origin
of the concept of Sour Grapes!
Item #: child14. Button: First a Kiss/Pay Toll Here. The young man encouraging
a kiss before agreeing to help the young lady fill her container from the well.
From a Victorian genre painting by Meyer von Bremen. Button is circa 1882. Fashioned
to a brooch or locket. 1 1/2" diameter. Price $65.
Item #: child1. Button: Now For It. Brooch. 1 3/8" diameter. Circa 1880's. Price
$60.
A schoolboy, slate in hand, about to swat a fly. Depicted as a print in "Godey's
Lady Book" of 1847. It has been also titled, Tom Sawyer Loitering Home From School.
Item #: child6. Button: the Goose That Laid the Golden Egg; a story by Hans Christian
Anderson. Brooch. 1 1/8" Diameter.
Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: child9. Button: Buster Brown, character from a famous comic strip of the
late 1800's. Four compartment locket with chain or bowpin. Circa 1890's. Price
$50.
Item #: child5. Button: Tom Thumb. Cut out in pewter against a dark background.
Brooch. 1 1/4" diameter. Circa 1880's. Price $60.
Character in a nursery tale. He was but an inch in height and had many adventures.
One time, he had been saucy to the Queen; she told the King, he sent for Tom in
great haste. Tom, fully aware of the royal anger, crept into an empty snail shell
where he stayed a long time. He nearly starved. At last he ventured out and seeing
a lovely, large butterfly on the ground near him, he cautiously approached, and
got himself astride. He was immediately carried up into the air, the scene on
this button.
Item #: child4. Button: Fantasy Boat Ride. From an illustration of a children's
story of the late 1800's. A highly detailed extravagant miniature. Brooch. 1 1/4"
diameter. Circa 1880's. Price $60.
Item #: child3. Button: The Waifs. Children singing in the street at Christmas
time and hope to receive gifts for food and other good things. A Kate Greenaway
design. Brooch. Circa 1880's. Price $60.
Kate Greenaway, born at Hoxton, England, March 17th, 1846, was the daughter of
a prominent wood engraver. She loved to help her father when she was a child,
drew pictures on her slate when very young and began to study art at 11 years
of age. Her first exhibit was held at the Dudley Galleries in England in 1868.
Her drawings of child life became very popular and her style was widely imitated.
One of her most successful books for children was "Under the Window".
Item #: child12. Button: Heidi, Tending Her Flocks; from a children's story. Small
locket with chain or bowpin.
Circa 1880's. Price $45.
Item #: child2. Button: Peter Pan, inspired by Maude Adams playing Peter, the
Lad Who Never Grew Up. Also known as The Little Charmer as presented on a trade
card for Allen's Root Beer in 1882. Necklace or brooch. 1 1/4" diameter.
Circa
1880's. Price $55.
Item #: child13. Children stories on a bracelet. Late 1800's. Price $235.
Buttons, from left to right: Peter Pan; The Piper; The Fox and the Stork; The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg; The Fox and the Grapes; Children's Circus.
Item #: child21. Summer, a Kate Greenaway design, cut-out in brass against
a tinted background, circa 1878. Fashioned onto a small, round locket. Price $45.
Item # child19. Hansel and Gretel, a Grimm's Fairy Tale. Fashioned into a brooch.
Button is circa 1880's. Just shy of 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Price $60.
Item #: child23. Button: Rumpelstilskin. From a fairy story by the Brothers Grimm.
button is circa 1880's, fashioned onto a small, 2 compartment locket. Button smaller
than same subject listed further down below. Price $45.
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Item #: child24. Button: In Beauty's Room. From the story, "Beauty and the
beast". "...she came to the door marked 'Beauty's Room'. Upon opening
the door she was dazzled by its grandeur. There was a large library filled with
books, a harpsichord and many other pieces of music." Button is Circa 1880's,
fashioned onto a small, round 2 compartment locket. Price $45.
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Item #: child28. Button: Children's Circus. Balcony with a child audience, the
performer on a trapeze in high relief, balancing on a ball. Circa 1880's. Price $50.
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Item #: child29. Button: The Waifs (see child3 for story). Fashioned onto a small
locket. Price $45.
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Item #:child27. Button: Buster Brown. A character from a famous comic strip created
by Richard Felton Outcault in 1902. Fashioned onto a small oval locket.
Price $40.
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Item #: child15. Button: Fantasy Boat Ride. From an illustration of a children's
story published during the late 1800's. A highly detailed miniature in brass
fashioned onto a small locket. Circa 1880's. Price $45.
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Item #: child26. Button: The Lion Who Bowed to the Palm Tree (Nivernois). The
king of beasts ridiculed the palm tree, which claimed sovereignty over the other
trees of the forest because it had perforce to stay in one spot, whereas he
could roam at will. Then came a great storm and the king of beasts was almost
killed by tumbling rocks. Many beasts died and many trees were uprooted, but
the palm tree still stood. The lion then was forced to bow to the palm and admit
that steadfastness was a quality to be admired above all.
Fashioned onto a small locket. Late 1800's. Price $45.
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Item #: child18. Button: Hansel and Gretel, a Grimm's Fairy Tale, made into an
opera by Engelbert Humperdink. Circa 1880's. Fashioned onto a small, two compartment
locket. Price $45.
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Item #: child33. Button:
Child in a Beanstalk, circa 1880's, fashioned onto a small locket. With chain
or bowpin. Price $45.
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Item #: child34. Button:
First a Kiss or Pay Toll Here, circa 1880's, fashioned onto a small locket.
With chain or bowpin. Price $45.
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Item #: child35. Button:
Rumpelstilskin (Rumpelstielzchen), from a fairy story by the Brothers Grimm,
circa 1880's, fashioned onto a small 2 compartment locket. With chain or bowpin.
1 1/8". Price $60.
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