RARE SET OF 1996 BUTTONS ISSUED TO PROMOTE THE 1996 EDITION OF “POLITICARDS.”
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Winning Bid:
$221.38 (Includes 15% Buyer's Premium)
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010 2:00:00 AM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Wednesday, September 29, 2010 2:00:00 AM)
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Auction:
Auction #201 - Part I
Item numbers 1 through 1408 in auction 201
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Item Description
We offered this rare set in Auction #196 with an opening bid of $400 which it failed to achieve. Given what these have sold for individually, this came as a great surprise but we are sure this time it will find a taker. We’ve seen only a few single item sales of buttons from this great set of 12 presidential/political caricature buttons. Those few sales ran from $75 to $147 per item. Here is an essentially mint as made set. Each is 2-1/8x3-1/8” Reverse curls read “Copyright 1996 By Peter Green Design, Inc./Bex Ltd. Part Of The O.S.P. Pub., Inc. Group – 200 Diversion, Rochester, MI 48307.” Depicted are: Bill Clinton as Cheeseburger Champion, Hillary as nurse with “S.S. Whitewater” raft, Mary Maitlin-James Carville in opposite ends of their bed/Ross Perot as Hercules bringing down columns topped by an elephant and donkey/Robert Dole as Godzilla crushing the Hollywood sign with his reptilian feet as he holds a pair of film reels/Oliver North with microphone on his “Soap” box also labeled “Assault Weapons.” Pat Buchanan as Robin Hood shooting flag-draped arrows as he stands at the center of a circle formed by his victims/Lamar Alexander as pastry chef holding freshly-sliced piece of the U.S. Capitol/Newt Gingerich as heavenly angel holding his makeshift halo above his head in one hand and with his “Contract With America” in his other hand/Colin Powell seated at desk autographing a stack of his biographies. On desk front, these words are crossed out: “Book Signing/Voting!” and then re-written below are the words “Book Signing”/Rush Limbaugh as a happy cigar-smoking, gun-toting man while on his wall hangs the trophy head of the Democratic donkey/Steve Forbes standing on the “Go” block of a Monopoly game holding his silver spoon in one hand and displaying “Pay Flat Tax” with the other. Mint.
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