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I am looking for some brushed silver buttons for a blazer. Can anyone suggest where I might be able to source some?

http://www.bensonandclegg.com/catalog/i ... p?cPath=21

They have a beautiful selection of blazer buttons. I have ordered a couple of times and they have arrived here in the antipodes after a week or so.

I would also suggest considering their enamels ones as they are a lot more interesting and less blingy than the silver/gold metalic finishes.

Sator - thanks. I will visit them in the Piccadilly Arcade tomorrow. Looking at the website, though, I can't see anything in brushed silver. Does anyone else have any suggestions?

I found some very interesting buttons at Button Queen in Central London. You can source vintage buttons here as well as new ones.

http://www.thebuttonqueen.co.uk/

Cheers

RJ Weldon, Hatherley Mews, Sidcup, Kent, tel 02083007878.

Superb trimming merchants in general, excellent choice of buttons, first class service.

A technical question of sorts:

Are there blazer buttons that can be engraved that aren't solid gold? Obviously there are 14k or 18k samples, but can the others-- enameled brass of one sort or another-- be engraved without causing harm to the finish?

Yes. When I got mine from B&C they offered three types: sterling silver, brass, gilt brass. They also offered two types of engraving: machine and hand.

I chose Gilt Brass because I could not be bothered to polish either the pure silver or brass. I also chose the hand engraved and am glad I did as the definition is much better than the machine engraving which really just scratches a design on the surface.

I am not sure whether enamelled brass could be engraved I suspect not.

This may prove to be of no value, Sartorius, since you are in London and can, presumably, find some sources there at which you could see the buttons in the flesh, so to speak (in the metal?!). However, let me give you a link to an online supplier of Holland & Sherry blazer buttons (along with shirting and suit fabrics):

http://www.hst.com.sg/acatalog/Holland_ ... utton.html

I am looking for mother of pearl shell buttons navey for a suit can any one point me in the right direction.

Tried button queen in London and they are out of stock.

Thanks

sartorius wrote:I am looking for some brushed silver buttons for a blazer. Can anyone suggest where I might be able to source some?

Perhaps unreasonably distant from London, but Larter & Son of Laurence Harbor, New Jersey, make a variety of these. The company may be America's best manufacturing jewellers, established in 1865. I haven't ordered from them (rather, from retail jewellers who stock or, as in the case of Tiffany & Co., mark Larter's work as their own) quite so long, but I have always been pleased.

sartorius wrote:I am looking for some brushed silver buttons for a blazer. Can anyone suggest where I might be able to source some?

Nice buttons
http://www.henrypoole.co.uk/accessories ... ID=2&cID=4

Thank you gentlemen for the button resources.

A note to Alden: has there been any interest in a LL button?