Help with vintage buttons

[dracoskip]

Hi,

  I have these buttons I'm supposed to be selling for someone, and I can't find any info on them.  Can't find them on ebay either.  I've seen somewhat similar ones, but with these yellowed I want to make sure I list them right.  Any help would be great!

[debora_34_]

They would be called "pictorial" buttons and are either hand-painted or -- more likely -- a transfer design.   They depict women in 18th century Rococo costume but with a more modern sensibility.   To my eye, they look to date to the 1930s (and that's just because the ladies' hats evoke that era.  Here's Myrna Loy in something similiar.)

Debora

[debora_34_]

I should add that eau de nil, the green color used on the ladies' accessories, was very popular in the 1930s.

Debora