NEW YORK STATE AND NEW YORK CITY BUTTONS AND RELATED COLLECTION PRIMARILY PRE-1950s.
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Starting Bid:
$115.00 (Includes 15% Buyer's Premium)
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Bidding Ended:
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 2:00:00 AM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Wednesday, July 18, 2012 2:00:00 AM)
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Auction:
Auction #206 - Part I
Item numbers 1 through 1278 in auction 206
Value Code:
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Item Description
Smallest item is 7/8" "Help Fight Discrimination/Manhattan Citizens Committee." Largest item is 3.5" for American Legion 1937 convention. Non button items are small celluloid for "Local And Long Distance Telephone" with NY company named on back, pocket mirror for "Rockefeller Center", tape measure for "Woolworth Building", and a brass badge for "250th Anniversary 1653-1903 New York, N.Y." Highlights of the other buttons are one for 1904 World's Fair, early fire button, superbly graphic "Ske-daddle To Schenectady." Three buttons relating to Sunday blue laws, a gorgeous "Brooklyn Boro Of Public Safety" button, and a second we've not seen before featuring triangle design along with small images of early auto, horse drawn wagon and rail car. Another relates to 1933 Century of Progress. And among the final few is the historic "I Was There Power Black Out November 9, 1965" litho button. All in Exc. to Mint condition. A high quality group.
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