Buttoned up, buttoned down

Ann Rudolph, the wife of a former OSU professor, spent a lifetime collecting buttons — rare and common, new and antique, worthless and priceless — and bequeathed her collection to Ohio State when she died in 1991, when they became part of the Historic Costume and Textiles Collection. "When you have these collections at a place like Ohio State that is an educational institution with so many different kinds of courses, we can work with people in history, art history, art education and cultural studies and interact with them on different levels" says Gayle Strege, curator of the collection." It's a great resource for the students to have."

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[Dredworld]

How can I tell the age of a button? Any books you could recommend? Thanks for sharing your beautiful collection.