“It was shear luck that Marie Snouffer found a treasure trove of unclassified china buttons at a garage sale. It was even more exciting that several years later, she agreed to sell the framed card of 109 different examples from that original purchase to me. China buttons were my first passion when I started collecting buttons and owning that collection with its back-story was special. Today, they hang on my living room wall so I see them every day.”