Mustard, who lives near Park Road, Hongqiao District Cui province column, it took 30 years for a collection of over 2000 pieces of buttons. Although these objects smallish, are all the late Qing Dynasty copper gilt Coins buckles, buttons on the pattern up to hundreds of species.
More than 2000 pieces of six categories
Cui master came home, he showed reporters that more than 2,000 pieces of buttons. These buttons are classified A4 paper size is fixed at a hard board, there are four buttons on the five elements of each board, each row of five or six. The reason why the arrangement is a luxurious, Cui said the master, he classified according to the pattern on the buttons, divided into figures, flowers, animals, plants, ships and auspicious six categories of Chinese characters. Each class has broken down several ten kinds, such as lotus flowers, plum blossom, peony and other points, animals dragons, fish, horses, eagles, bats and other differences.
These buttons like a small dime coin, big as a dollar coin is so great that most copper bright, goods with complete clarity. In order to facilitate the distinction, except by pattern classification, Cui master returned from the name of these buttons. There are three sheep like pattern on the name “auspicious beginning” with pomegranate and bat pattern is called “many sons” …… “You do not look smallish buttons, inside knowledge also plenty,” Cui said the master, these copper gilt coins buckles are large house at the time the clothes have accessories, flower-shaped pattern of different buttons on the identity of the person is also different.
Collection efforts exhibitions
This year 63-year-old Cui master, father undertook Ruifuxiang costumes tailor. It is therefore presumably his childhood on the button there is great interest, especially the home possession of more than a dozen pieces that have a wide variety of patterned copper buttons. In order to collect these coins copper gilt buckle mechanism, he almost every week to Shenyang Road, Taobao, has repeatedly traveled to Beijing Panjiayuan and Baoding, Texas, Taiyuan and other places of the antique market. However, because it would be unpopular collections, copper gilt Coins buckle much on the market, and less and less, for which he also taught himself computer, specifically on Taobao Amoy baby and collection sites.
Although much is to spend money to buy a few, of course, three hundred dollars bought a lot of buttons, can someone out how high the price he did not sell. In his opinion, these buttons to the people left behind a visible, tangible history, while also learned that the first people of folk customs. Cui master has a desire is to continue collection of more copper gilt Coins buckles, and more to one day be able to hold up an exhibition, so that more people know about the history of buttons there.
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