LINDBERGH BABY 1935 KIDNAPPING TRIAL BUTTON WITH HIS PHOTO AND SUSPENDED "PRESS" RIBBON.
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Item Description
2-3/16" button, no maker, with heavy green cloth ribbon which has .25" deep folded and sewn top panel which allows the ribbon to be suspended in a fixed position held in place by the curved end of the brass spring pin. Pictured is Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. in a photo, different than two used on the "Wanted Information..." posters distributed immediately after his March 1, 1932 kidnapping from his crib in the upper floor on the Lindbergh home "Highfields" in Hopewell Township, New Jersey. This button and ribbon was used by some members of the "Press" during the January 2-February 13, 1935 trial in Flemington, NJ of Bruno Hauptmann, eventually executed for the crime. The button, the only example known to us, was formerly in the collection of artist/illustrator/writer Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) who had a life-long obsession with the kidnapping which was the genesis of his book Outside Over There. The button surface has some unevenness with slightly raised center area which also has a tiny, faint age mark on the garment the baby wears at the neckline directly below his ear. This is the button sold by Hake's for the Sendak Estate in 2014 (Auction #211) where it realized $2,720. An updated Sendak Collection Hake's COA is included. This is also the button photographed and described for the book, (pg. 128), Button Power by Carter/Hake. Glossy and VF. See next lot, trial souvenir ladder.
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