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- 2025 NBS Show Favor Button (Blue Dress)
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- Adult US Membership
- Book: A Descriptive Catalog of PICTORIAL OVERALL BUTTONS–WOBBLE SHANKS
- Book: BLACK GLASS BUTTONS– A Handbook for Collectors
- Book: CLEAR & COLORED GLASS BUTTONS (2023) — A Handbook for Collectors
- Book: CLEAR AND COLORED GLASS BUTTONS– A Complete Classification (2002)
- Book: MODERN WEST GERMAN GLASS BUTTONS
- Book: National Button Society BLUE BOOK 2023
- Book: National Button Society BLUE BOOK 2027
- Book: PEARL AND SHELL BUTTONS — A Complete Classification
- Booklet: A Beginner’s Guide to ALUMINUM BUTTONS
- Booklet: DIGGIN’ D.I.G.S. (Design in Glass Surface) Buttons
- Booklet: EARTH’S NATURAL TREASURES by Ronnie Kauk
- Booklet: HORN AND HOOF BUTTONS by Joan Lindsay
- Booklet: LASER ENGRAVED BUTTONS
- Booklet: SMILE! WE ARE LOOKING AT REALISTIC SETS
- Booklet: STEEL BUTTONS
- Booklet: SYNTHETIC POLYMERS HANDBOOK
- Classification Changes to the Blue Book -Yessy Byl
- Compiling an Animal Button Assortment by Krystin Reider
- Dealer Helper Registration – Early
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- Free Tray Slips
- Friday Dinner – Ravioli
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- NBS 2026 CREATIVE CHALLENGE #2: CAPTURE THE SHOW THEME – “A REVOLUTION IN FASHION – 250 YEARS OF BUTTONS”
- NBS CREATIVE CHALLENGE #10: BUCKLE IT!
- NBS Creative Challenge #11: FREE-STANDING OBJECT
- NBS Creative Challenge #12: WHATEVER
- NBS Creative Challenge #1: BEST SMALL BEAD-AND-BUTTON MOSAIC – Sponsored by the National Pearl Button Museum, Muscatine, IA
- NBS Creative Challenge #3: MAKE A BUTTON
- NBS Creative Challenge #4: BUTTON EMBELLISHED NEEDLE ART
- NBS Creative Challenge #5: JEWELRY
- NBS Creative Challenge #6: ACCESSORY OR CLOTHING
- NBS Creative Challenge #7: Tell a Button Story
- NBS Creative Challenge #8: FREE CHOICE MOUNTING
- NBS CREATIVE CHALLENGE #9: CHOOSE A FASHION ERA
- NBS Junior Activities Fund
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- NBS OFFICIAL BUTTON
- NBS OFFICIAL BUTTON MEASURE (flat brass)
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- Picture Perfect Deluxe Picture Buttons by Bruce Beck Pt 2
- Picture Perfect Deluxe Picture Buttons by Bruce Beck Pt I
- Saturday Breakfast
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- SHOW FAVOR BUTTON 2022 Enamel by Janet White
- Show Favor Button 2024 Can-Can Dancer + 1 mounting card
- Show Favor Button 2024 Mounting Card
- Show Favor Button: MI: Blue French Frocked Gnome
- Show Favor Button: MI: Button of Parisian Girl Hiding Behind a Movable/Mechanical, Twirling Umbrella with Eiffel Towers
- Show Favor Button: MI: French Bulldog and French Poodle in a French Taxi Button
- Show Favor Button: MI: Red French Frocked Gnome
- Stardard Registration
- THE NATIONAL BUTTON BULLETIN – 2020
- THE NATIONAL BUTTON BULLETIN – 2021
- THE NATIONAL BUTTON BULLETIN – 2022
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- THE NATIONAL BUTTON BULLETIN – 2024
- THE NATIONAL BUTTON BULLETIN – 2025
- THE NATIONAL BUTTON BULLETIN – 2026
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- Video: 25 BUTTON COLLECTING HACKS by Susie Smith
- Video: A Beginner’s Guide to Aluminum – Barbara Weeks
- Video: A Walk Takes Flight by Anne Morgan
- Video: Athena, Goddess of Everything by Yessy Byl
- Video: Award Writing Simplified by Barbara Weeks
- Video: BIMINI BUTTONS by Sheila Brudno
- Video: BUTTON DISPLAYS–CARD ‘EM IF YA GOT ‘EM with Maggie Johnson, ButtonU 204
- Video: Button Hack Pt 2: Featuring Display Hacks: Susie Smith
- Video: Buttons All Galore — Pearly Kings and Queens by Barb Hunt
- Video: BUTTONS AND ART HISTORY by Yessy Byl, ButtonU–302
- Video: BUTTONS BY FRENCH JEWELRY DESIGNER LEA STEIN by Debbie Campbell
- Video: BUTTONS THAT IMITATE FABRIC–An Introduction to the Research of Dorothy Krugner
- Video: ButtonU 110–HOW OLD IS MY BUTTON? led by Martha DuPlessis
- Video: ButtonU 201–MATERIALS ID, Part 2–Matthew Brown & Simone Kincaid
- Video: ButtonU 201–MATERIALS IDENTIFICATION, Part 1–Simone Kincaid & Matthew Brown
- Video: ButtonU 203 23-8 Mother Daughter (Matching Pair) Buttons with Cindy Rathbone
- Video: ButtonU 205–Take a Closer Look at CONVERSIONS with Sallie Gibson
- Video: ButtonU 206 USING BUTTON WORKSHEETS with Joan Lindsay
- Video: Class 02-0 CERAMICS 101, PART 1– with Susan Vincenzes
- Video: Class 02-0 CERAMICS 101, PART 2– by Susan Vincenzes
- Video: Class 06-2 & 07-1: GLASS BUTTON BACK TYPES by Marilyn Miller
- Video: Class 08-5: HOW OLD ARE YOUR PASTES with Sue Dickout
- Video: Class 10-10.1.1 GOLDEN AGE BUTTONS by Lynn Keller
- Video: Class 10-13.2: FRENCH TIGHTS by YESSY BYL
- Video: Class 10-4.3 NIELLO: My Love Affair With Niello by Thelma Nichols
- Video: Class 10-5: THE OTHER STEELS–Beyond Steel Cups by Sue Dickout
- Video: Class 12-1.1: IS THIS A COLT BUTTON? by Judy Masur
- Video: Class 13-0: PICTORIAL VEGETABLE IVORY BUTTONS–Hidden Treasures with Claudia Chalmers
- Video: Class 18-3 Coin & Coin Like Buttons with Matthew Brown
- Video: Class 25-9: SPORTING BUTTONS by Joanne Irons
- Video: COLLECTING BUNNY BUTTONS by Claudia Chalmers
- Video: Compass Buttons by Joanne Irons
- Video: Dating Black Glass by Yessy Byl
- Video: Div II: UNIFORM BUTTONS with Joanne Irons
- Video: Div IV–STUDS #1–SUPER STUDS I HAVE KNOWN AND LOVED
- Video: Do You Believe In Fairies: Joanne Irons
- Video: FABRIC BUTTONS: Tiny Textile Treasures by GINA BARRETT
- Video: FABULOUS FASTENERS by Bruce Beck
- Video: Gay 90’s Buttons by Bruce Beck
- Video: Modern Asian Buttons by the Button U team
- Video: Motiwala Buttons by Sue Jordan
- Video: Muscatine Iowa and the Pearl Button Industry by Dustin Joy
- Video: Museum Moments, or Down the Research Rabbit Hole by Amanda Conran
- Video: Old Glass Buttons: Becky Lyon
- Video: On the Borders by Sue Dickout
- Video: PAINTED EGGS: THE ART OF EGGSHELL BUTTONS by Patricia Clark
- Video: Paperweight Buttons – Miniature Art in Glass by Merry Jo Thoele
- Video: Pewter-The Other White Metal by Simone Kincaid
- Video: Photographing Buttons by Susan Vincenzes
- Video: Picture Buttons – the Collector’s Journey by Sue Dickout
- Video: QUEENS by Judy Masur
- Video: RAILROAD BUTTONS AROUND NEW ENGLAND with Johnson Frazier
- Video: SAME BUTTON, DIFFERENT MATERIAL with Sue Dickout and Chris Shreve
- Video: Satsuma Buttons Stories of Old Japan by Nancy Bank Allen
- Video: SNAPETTES by GINA KOHN
- Video: ST. HUBERTUS, Patron Saint of Hunters with Martha Duplessis
- Video: The Charm of Brooks Buttons by Michelle Briggs
- Video: The Golden Age of China Trade Buttons by Weiling Yin
- Video: The Mystery and Magic of Toshikane by Yuko Kohga
- Video: The Skies Above – Astronomical and Related Buttons by the Button U Team
- Video: They Wore Our Buttons by Claudia Chalmers
- Video: Tiny Treasures: A HISTORY OF BUTTONS THROUGH THE EYES OF FASHION & FASHION DOLLS with Yessy Byl
- Video: UNBUTTONING THE BLUE BOOK with Merry Jo Thoele
- Video: Where in the World is That Button by Baylan Jones, Miles Mendenhall and Eson Jones
- Video: Wild About Florida: Annie Frazier
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- Section 9 – Horn
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- Section 11 – Shell
- Section 12 – Synthetic Polymers
- Section 13 – Vegetable Ivory
- Section 14 – Wood
- Section 15 – Other Materials
- Section 22 – Patterns, Symbols
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- Section 24 – 18th Century (or earlier)
- Section 25 – Usage (Non-Uniform)
- Division IV Section 1 – Bridle Rosettes
- Division IV Section 2 – Buckles/Clasps
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