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

A button that exemplifies this type of sentiment came from the 1968 presidential campaign of Eugene McCarthy, whose critics created buttons with “McCarthy for Fuhrer” printed on them, Carter says.

Campaigns Upgrade, But Political Buttons Endure Weekend Edition host Scott Simon talks to Mort Berkowitz, who has been making political buttons since 1976. He shares some of his favorites with ...

Not every campaign button is political. Some supported the late baseball legend Pete Rose and his quest to be enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Ygal Kaufman / Ideastream Public Media. 5 of 7 — ...

It turns out the key to making political campaign buttons or other memorabilia valuable for collectors isn’t necessarily the candidates; it’s the quantity—the fewer, the better.

My theory aside, you have some marvelous examples of early political campaign buttons from the turn of the last century, the bulk of them related to William McKinley, our 25th president.

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 ...

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 ...

While campaigns buttons as we know them today didn't appear widely until the 1896 presidential election, pins and ribbons have served as political bling since the time of George Washington.

Campaign Buttons, Political Emails May Not Be Welcome In The Workplace. ... But don't let a campaign button or an offhand remark by the water cooler get you in the middle of a political maelstrom.

The American Political Items Collectors gather in Canton annually. This year collectors weighted in on the upcoming election. Can political campaign button sales predict an election?