New finds
Woolies 1957-1965, Beutron 1970s
The trimmed card is a early 1950s Beauclaire. The Butterick was “packed in Australia by Beutron Ltd” ?1980s.
Perhaps you’ve heard of smuggler’s buttons, and wondered where this has truth or fiction …
The Daily Mercury (Mackay), 7th December 1936 page 8.
Hand crafted buttons
Australian Women’s Weekly 18th march 1950 page 60: A young Hungarian migrant living in a migrant’s camp made these buttons and necklaces from plum and cherry stones and walnut kernels and shells, carved by knife.
and from Carol,
