FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Three Rivers Festival button collectors are a community like no other. When WANE 15 shared Bryan Ridgway’s story a few weeks ago about his collection, he was a few buttons ...

POWELL, Wyo. (AP) At some time in their lives, nearly every child has emptied out mother s button box, searching through the collection for a unique color or shape, finding a hidden treasure in a ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The Three Rivers Festival makes a new button every year. The pin can get you discounts on some tickets around the festival, but, for some, they mean a lot more. Over the ...

Q: We have a fabulous antique button collection collected by a family member, a deceased former president of the National Button Society. The buttons are all sorted and carded and go back to the time ...

NPR political editor Ken Rudin visits a convention of campaign memorabilia collectors. It's a strange world, where one battered button can fetch $15,000 at auction. It can sometimes be hard to find ...

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) Peggy Mathes still has the first button she ever collected a trapezoid-shaped piece made of bakelite, trimmed with a row of rhinestones. "It was in 1988," Mathes said. "I was in an ...

Syliva Whiten’s husband, Bob Whiten, has his own, small collection of buttons from his firefighter parade coat. He has served with the Charleroi Fire Department for 60 years. Sylvia Whiten keeps her ...

“Button, button who has the button,” is a parlor game many of us played as children. The game goes back to Colonial times when every home had a button, and in those days a button was to be treasured.