In Hake's Buttons In Sets we list these as 85 seen as Marshall Levin and Ted Hake included the following two groups of Celebrated American Generals and Athletes because at the time of the book we were not aware of how these were originally issued. Since then an 1897 W&H catalog has been discovered breaking these into three distinct sets. 58 different are now known in the Celebrated Men and Women Set. This includes two in this group not on the Hake list. These are Gen. William Booth and David G. Farragut/Admiral U.S.A. There are also five on the 1897 W&H list that are not in the Hake list. These are: Hugo, Carlyle, Holmes, Susan B. Anthony, Princess Of Wales. While the W&H list says "Set Of 59" that is an error as their list includes "Khedive Of Egypt" along with "Abbas, II" as two separate buttons whereas the first button we are selling in this lot demonstrates that this is a single issue with all those words on the one button. That makes it a set of 58 and of that we are offering 46. All those pictured were very important personalities of their era but here are a few that have maintained their fame over the past century: P.T. Barnum, Bonaparte, Thos. A. Edison, Benjamin Franklyn (sic), Horace Greeley, Lafayette, Longfellow, Lillian Russell, Shakespeare, Prince Of Wales, Daniel Webster, William II/Emperor Of Germany. Extremely trivial traces of age on just two or three. Vast majority are NM displaying Mint. The most extensive collection of these that we know of. See following two related lots.