Lady Washington Baby Pearl Buttons Post Earrings!
Lady Washington Baby Pearl Buttons Post Earrings!
These designs are a first for Pretty Pretty! I (Jen KIdd!), NEVER before have reproduced a design, but today; I unveil to you the first in an antique button series called: Baby Pearl Button Earrings! Limited editions of Mother-of-Pearl (white), Pink or Green Lucite and with a very limited number of each. See my portrait for scale, so small, so sweet! Very cool history too: “Frank Stewart and Fred Geisler launched the company in 1908. E. B. Hammer became a third partner in 1910. Stewart had previously owned a factory that manufactured boxes. By 1910, E. B. Hammer was brought in as a third partner. At the company’s peak in 1948, it employed 240 workers, making it one of the largest employers in Washington. The American Pearl Button Company sold under the brand name “Lady Washington” until it closed in 1965.”
These designs are a first for Pretty Pretty! I (Jen KIdd!), NEVER before have reproduced a design, but today; I unveil to you the first in an antique button series called: Baby Pearl Button Earrings! Limited editions of Mother-of-Pearl (white), Pink or Green Lucite and with a very limited number of each. See my portrait for scale, so small, so sweet! Very cool history too: “Frank Stewart and Fred Geisler launched the company in 1908. E. B. Hammer became a third partner in 1910. Stewart had previously owned a factory that manufactured boxes. By 1910, E. B. Hammer was brought in as a third partner. At the companys peak in 1948, it employed 240 workers, making it one of the largest employers in Washington. The American Pearl Button Company sold under the brand name “Lady Washington” until it closed in 1965.”
Antique Baby Pearl Buttons from the Automatic Button Company of Iowa. American Pearl Works and may be over 80years old! read more here: “These factories were among the few belonging to an alliance of Iowa button manufacturers. The group consisted of seven Muscatine companies Automatic Button Company, Hawkeye, Iowa Pearl, McKee, Muscatine Pearl Works, U.S. Button, and Weber & Sons and one company from Washington, Iowa American Pearl Button Company. Button manufactures touted pearl as more durable, more lustrous, beautiful, and unaffected by steam, heat, and water.”