EDU--ButtonU 205--Take a Closer Look at CONVERSIONS with Sallie Gibson

30 minutes. Examples of the things that you really DON'T want to include on your competition tray. From the NBS Blue Book, page 77: Conversions are articles manufactured for other uses are converted into buttons. Examples are jewelry, hat pins and pearl gaming pieces. Not acceptable in competition. Glass with cone shanks that were molded for both buttons and hat pins are not considered conversions, but are best used in Divs. IX or III. Glued-on shanks are acceptable except when obviously used to create a button from something else.