Drops & Buttons
Wilkinson's hold millions of drops & buttons in stock, some are modern reproductions of old styles and some are rare antique items.
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18th century English style drops 1. Sunray button 2. Link pear 3. Georgian oval or diamond 4. Early metal capped pear drop 5. Facetted knob drop 6. Kite drop 19th century English style drops 7. Pear drop 8. Waisted icicle 9. Round icicle 10. Triangular icicle 11. Plain albert 12. Tapered albert 13. Cut back albert 14. Spear drop 15. Drumstick 16. Osler facetted ball & shaft drop 17. Rule drop 18. Prism 19. Coffin 20. Shaped coffin 21. Oval button 22. Rule button 23. Octagonal flatback 8 cut 24. Octagonal flatback 16 cut 25. Diamond 26. Hexagonal flatback 27. Round double point button 28. Round flatback button Continental style drops 29. Plain bead 30. Facetted bead 31. Swedish oval 32. Rosette 33. Bomb drop 34. French pear 35. Plain or uncut pear 36. Tear drop 37. Bohemian pear 38. Swedish icicle 39. French slab drop Modern drops 40. Waterford drop 41. Icicle 42. Moulded pear 43. Swarovski pear 44. Square cut pear 45. Garnet cut octagon (Swarovski) 46. Standard cut octagon 47. Moulded octagonal flatback 48. Modern oval 49. Facetted ball 50. Plain ball |
Certain drops are specially manufactured for us in Austria and Turkey and are hand cut from the finest quality optical glass or lead crystal. Other drops are imported from Germany, Czechoslovakia, Italy and Egypt. There are literally 100's of different styles drops and buttons. Below is a key to some of the more popular styles. Some are trad- itional names, others are our descriptions. |
