RARE EARLY 1960 BUTTON MAKER SELF PROMOTIONAL W/IKE, MAMIE, NIXON, ROCKEFELLER, KENNEDY & STEVENSON.
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Winning Bid:
$1,150.00
(Includes 15% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 10:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, November 15, 2016 10:00:00 PM)
Item Description
This big 6" button has cardboard easel on reverse with bar pin at top. Text reads "Like To Win?/Benjamin Harris Co., Inc. Is Right On The Button!" and features graphics of a donkey and elephant along with photos of the four 1960 primary candidates along with the sitting president and his wife. Produced in a very small quantity by Harris Co. as a promotional item early in the 1960 campaign year. Moderate overall surface wear that is typical for buttons of this size but the only evident age marks are a few tiny 1/16" scratches and pinpoint dots along the extreme upper edge plus a single pinpoint speck of cello off extreme rim at right and some very slight surface scratches just below Nixon. There is an air mark from the left at 9 o'clock that crosses Rockefeller's head. This is about 2" long and .25" wide but again shows only very moderately. VF. We are aware of only one other sale of this button in the past two decades. Based on rarity and previous result we offered this item in Auction #217 with opening bid of $2500. The button did not sell but the consigner wants it sold so we have slashed the opening bid by 60% and we will let the market decide on the value of this rare artifact of American campaign and button history in 1960.
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