New Finds: Embassy

Embassy buttons were mainly made in Australia, supplied first by General Plastic and then by Beutron. The buttons on the left are like the Beuaclaire Superglow buttons c.1955.

These style buttons, possibly polyester, were also sold on Kencrest and Leda branded cards.

As of 1957-8, polyester buttons were not made in Australia from locally produced raw material, rather they were made from imported button ‘blanks’. It was at that time too expensive to produce polyester in Australia. The newspaper article below describes the plastic industry a couple of years later.