Button Lottery

Here are the pictures of the buttons I alluded to before.

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Button Questions

1. Anyone out there have a (pinback) button machine? I'm in the market and don't know what to look for. People on Craftster give very mixed reviews to badge-a-minit. I went ahead and bought a professional 1" machine from buybuttonparts.com via eBay. They seemed to have the best deal. Stay tuned for a button-filled future.

2. Say you get a mother lode of vintage (regular ol' non-pinback) buttons*. They're on their original cards. Is it the collector's way to keep them on the cards? Or cut them off for sorting fun?

*at the most wonderful antique mall that you never knew existed (see below)

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