MARILYN MONROE RARE EARLY CAREER LARGE PHOTO BUTTON C. 1953 PHOTOGRAPHED FOR BUTTON POWER.
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Winning Bid:
$241.46
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Thursday, February 25, 2021 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Thursday, February 25, 2021 9:00:00 PM)
Item Description
2.5" rather thick litho tin button with gray tin covered back and pair of holes containing the original safety pin style fastener. The button is totally unmarked except for her bold first name "Marilyn" printed over the photo of her posing in her sunshine yellow swimsuit. Button was likely produced in Australia. Front has numerous small paint marks, mostly tiny dots and tiny scratches with the two exceptions being a narrow 1/8" paint spot missing from below her left arm and a .5" hairline scratch over the first letter of her name. Button retains full gloss and the color has not faded. Fine. At the lower left corner of the button a corner of a wire table shows. This image documents to a photo shoot in 1953 by Frank Powolny. We've seen the image on a postcard from the 1950s printed in Germany, and it was used in early 1950s by 20th Century Fox as a publicity still and a photo from the same session appears on the front of a November 1953 issue of Motion Picture & TV Magazine. For a personality of Marilyn's magnitude, it is amazing that there are not many buttons picturing her from the 1950s and 1960s, but in fact this is the only vintage 1950s Marilyn button we have ever seen. Two examples known. This is the button photographed for and featured on page 123 of the book Button Power by Hake/Carter. Comes w/Hake's COA.
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