New Jersey State Button Society

Welcome to the world of buttons!

Do you have a jar of buttons you know nothing about?

Are you interested in antiques, history, sewing, or quilting?

Do you have a passion for learning about different time periods in history?

Or do you just like the tiny objects that are “the world’s smallest antiques?”’

YOU ARE INVITED TO THE NEW JERSEY STATE BUTTON SOCIETY SPRING SHOW

ON SATURDAY, MAY 11, 9 A.M. TO 3 PM — ADMISSION FREE, PARKING APLENTY

AT THE Union Fire Company Fire Company and Rescue Squad Hall, 1396 River Road (Route 29), Titusville, NJ.

This website – the New Jersey State Button Society — can help you. Our members share an interest in studying, collecting, and preserving clothing buttons, both old and new. At our twice-yearly shows, you can ogle beautiful buttons, learn about them, and maybe get some for yourself. We also offer other opportunities about the history and general knowledge of buttons. Welcome to the New Jersey State!

Our shows can help you. With the theme of Button Beginnings and Black Glass the New Jersey State Button Society will present its Spring Show and Competition on Saturday, May 11, 2024 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Union Fire Company Fire Company and Rescue Squad Hall, 1396 River Road (Route 29), Titusville, NJ. The Fall Show for 2024 will be Saturday, September 14, same time and place. Antique buttons made from enamel, glass, metal, and ivory, plus a wide variety of other modern and vintage buttons will be on display and also available for purchase. Admission is free, and YOU are invited.

Our presentations and club meetings can help you. We offer local club meetings in Bridgewater, Lawrence, and near the Jersey Shore. Our speakers make presentations at historical societies, clubs, and quilting guilds, and we give classes at the Princeton Adult School. On this website, you can view past programs on Shell buttons, Black Glass buttons, fashion history, buttons as art, and more.

Being a member can help you. NJSBS members receive two bulletins issued in the Spring and Fall. Annual dues are $10, payable by December 31 for the following year. Fill out the form and mail your check made out to NJSBS to Membership Chair Theresa Heulitt, 21 Frilham Lane, Manchester NJ 08759. We also recommend joining the National Button Society.

On Saturday, May 11 the New Jersey State Button Society’s (NJSBS) Spring 2024 Button Show and Competition, “Once Upon a Charmstring”, will highlight the history and enduring allure of the Victorian charmstring, plus an opportunity for guests to start one of their own. De DuBois has created and assembled charmstring starter kits as favors exclusively for those who attend the show. Displays at the event will feature books, articles, photos, member’s strings and more history pertaining to charmstrings.

Above: Patty Daniels judges a competition. For NJSBS shows, the judged competitions will be in the spring, and popular vote/mount as you please competitions will be in the fall. Each member may submit three entries for each show.

For 2024 competitions click here