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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.