As for advice for beginning campaign button collectors, Vlk says to buy more for quality than quantity. ”Don`t try to build an enormous collection with $1 and $2 buttons,” he advises.

Campaign button for 1864 presidential election showing bust tintype portrait of Abraham Lincoln and Vice Presidential candidate, Andrew Johnson. 1860.

Campaign buttons remain a popular way to show off support for candidates. Ygal Kaufman / Ideastream Public Media. 4 of 7 — APIC 2024 buttons. Not every campaign button is political. Some supported the ...

Such buttons have a storied history in the American political system, immortalizing both winners and losers in our great Democratic process. There's never room to say much on a campaign button, so ...

Hake sold a slightly bigger version of the same pin in 2022 for over $180,000, believed to be the most ever paid for a campaign button. He predicted this one would reach $20,000 or more at auction.

Julius Desenberg collected more than 1,000 political campaign buttons throughout his life. Now, they're on display at Rice's Baker Institute.

Over the last 48 years, Gordon Wayman has assembled a political memorabilia collection spanning countless autographs, presidential Pez dispensers and more than 3,000 campaign buttons.

‘I truly am a political junkie’: Check out Carl Toepel’s massive campaign button collection. WDJT via CNN Newsource Carl Toepel's got quite a collection in his Howards Grove home.

John Newell occasionally wears his politics on his lapel. Newell, a former member of the Ashland Town Council and a career state government employee, collects campaign buttons — and has, since ...

By Michele Fiore Click here for updates on this story HOWARDS GROVE, Wisconsin (WDJT) -- There's an old saying…don’t tell me where ...