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Victorians loved ornate buttons and a quaint custom encouraged _ unmarried maidens to sew 1,000 butâ€" tons to make a "Chain String". When this Chain String was finished, so the story went, a prince charmâ€" ing would appear. According to Slute, at one time, Kitchener, then known as Berlin, was said to be the "Button Capital of Canada" with four button factories in the area including WCAC‘s building which was conâ€" structed in 1886. Buttons made on site included those punched from pearlized shells and those made from nuts. Historically, _ buttons began as decorations as earty as the late 15th century â€" little pieces of art to add to the clothes of the upper classes. It is not known when buttons made the transition from omament to today‘s fastenâ€" ers but they first appeared in paintings in the late 16th century, mostly on military Originally buttons were works of art employing indiâ€" vidual aspects of painting stamping and decorating. The introduction of modern production methods and plastics made it cheaper to make buttons out of the newer materials and one by one, Kâ€"W‘s labour intensive factories closed. Slute started his button collection in 1978 in Vancouâ€" ver. While he was walking through a flea market, a lady who was selling buttons asked him if he was interestâ€" ed in buying her buttons. Her price was $2.50. He replied that he wasn‘t interested so she reduced the price to $2. He still wasn‘t interested. She started to cry and told him she had been there all day without a sale. He bought the buttons for $1, which started him on a path that would eventually see him as the proud possessor of nearly 40,000 collectible buttons. His collection also includes over one maillion ordinary buttons, some beads, cuff links and pieces of rings and other jewelry that he has found in the bottoms of the bags of buttons he has since collected. Most of his buttons have been purchased from antique stores, in thrift shops, at auctions or garage sales. A search of the Internet shows that Slute is not alone in his interest in button colâ€" lecting. There is a button colâ€" lector club in every state in the U.S. and in countries such as France, Italy, Great Britain and Canada. Local collector offers historic look at buttons Continued from page 20 cases and a hand made jackâ€" et specially designed by Slute in the fashion of a British Pearly King jacket. Two talks on the exhibition and the hisâ€" tory of buttons are planned for Jan. 29, one at noon and one at 7 p.m. There will also be some special collector buttons on sale during the exhibit. A e Annptoaie 23 45 ie c o C in o * : W W MaTo® € ZDA 11.9% Purchese Anancing/34 manths eveilable on the 2003 Mande Protegi, ProtegéS, MPY and Tibute Fmance examples: for $10.000 at 1 Â¥% Purchese Financing the monthly payment *ihfii is $285. 99 for 36 months. 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