Button, Button … Vintage, Pinback Buttons
Advertising button, “Drink Alpen Brau, Detroit’s Champion Beer,” celluloid with concave metal back painted red, pinback. Pictures small portraits of 24 Boston Red Sox players, including Babe Ruth, and their manager all identified below their pictures, with “Boston Red Sox American League” and “World’s Champions 1916” at the top. Between the photos are baseball graphics, including balls, bats, a catcher’s mask and mitt, a pair of baseball cleats, gloves and a home plate. Marked “Cruver Mfg. Co., Chicago” on bottom curl, 6 in. diam., $62,980.
Collecting is in some people’s genes. Even some toddlers can sort “treasures” by differences in rocks, butterflies, bugs, leaves, playing cards, coins, dolls and tiny toys that they found or were given. Soon they are pricing and trading with other collectors who had noticed what was most popular, oldest, in best condition and hardest to […]