Campaign buttons for that year were also notable for taking advantage of the fact that there had been a lunar eclipse that year as well. Playing on what was happening celestially, campaign pins ...

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.

Presidential campaign buttons have reflected their times for more than 100 years, going all the way back to the 1896 election between William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan.

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.

He began collecting FDR items after Roosevelt`s death in 1945 and his massive collection includes thousands of FDR campaign buttons, mugs, clocks, busts, ashtrays, bottles and pennants.

The political button business has been booming. A Cox/Roosevelt campaign button from 1920 was auctioned for a six-figure sum this week. By Leah Askarinam and Blake Hounshell Ted Hake has seen his ...

These buttons left Roosevelt’s button corps in the dust. Since campaign buttons traditionally came out just before a campaign, FDR’s button operation was vastly outmatched by Willkie’s.

TAMPA, Fla. — Eugene Ola was on a street corner hawking some political buttons with phrases like “Believe in America” and featuring photos of a smiling GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney ...

Campaign buttons for the 1992 Clinton-Gore national ticket bearing a Confederate flag background are of uncertain provenance. Kim LaCapria Published June 24, 2015. Claim: The 1992 ...

Images of a similar 1992 Clinton campaign button were circulated online in June 2015 in the midst of a national controversy over the continued flying of a Confederate flag on South Carolina State ...